The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.
– Kevin DeYoung –
Holiness
The holier someone becomes – Charles Spurgeon
I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s Holy Love – Thomas Oden
God’s holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God’s love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God.
– Thomas Oden –
A Baptism of Pure Love – Samuel Logan Brengle
Do you want to know what holiness is? It is pure love. Do you want to know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is? It is not a mere sentiment. It is not a happy sensation that passes away in a night. It is a baptism of love that brings every thought into captivity to the Lord Jesus (see 2 Cor. 10:5); casts out all fear (see 1 John 4:18); burns up doubt and unbelief as fire burns flax; makes you ‘meek and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29); makes you hate uncleanness, lying and deceit, a flattering tongue, and every evil way with a perfect hatred;Â makes heaven and hell eternal realities; makes you patient and gentle with the disobedient and sinful; makes you ‘pure … peaceable … open to reason, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere’ (James 3:17), and brings you into perfect and unbroken sympathy with the Lord Jesus Christ in His toil and travail to bring a lost and rebellious world back to God.
– Samuel Logan Brengle –
Chief Dangers – William Booth
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
Divorce your sin – Charles Spurgeon
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Mandatory Holiness – Elisabeth Elliot
 Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Holiness of heart and life – AB Simpson
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
– AB Simpson –
Against sin – Billy Sunday
Listen, I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist, I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head, and I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.
– Billy Sunday –