personal holiness Quotes

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

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.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are anchored in greatness, in holiness, in worth, in grace, in joy, in excitement -in internal certainties rather than external circumstances. Because that belief? That's where you're heading, no matter what it may look like on the outside.

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

Boycotting: A Matter of Christian Stewardship and Personal Holiness…. A boycott is one of the very few means that the Christian community has of visibly and audibly expressing a united concern regarding the debasing of human life

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ