#holiness

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#lifestyle

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#crowd #desert #holiness #silence

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#cause #down #effect #end #eyes

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#garden-of-eden #god #holiness #art

Change – real change – starts at the core of your being; it starts when you encounter the One who created you and you can no longer stand any essence of yourself that varies from His holiness. ↗

— Amy Layne Litzelman

#holiness #change