Holiness

A Baptism of Pure Love – Samuel Logan Brengle

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;  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

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 –

Mandatory Holiness – Elisabeth Elliot

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 –

Against sin – Billy Sunday

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 –

Called Holy – JC Ryle

Called Holy – JC Ryle

 I cannot see how any man deserves to be called “holy,” who willfully allows himself in sins, and is not humbled and ashamed because of them.

– JC Ryle –

Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell – Leonard Ravenhill

Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell – Leonard Ravenhill

Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us … [and to make us] holy in speech … in actions … in everything.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

Self-Giving Love – Bill Ury

Self-Giving Love – Bill Ury

Holiness is nothing less than self-giving love. More than conceptual, this love is tangibly self-offering, self-dispensing, and self-emptying. It is the essence of biblical discipleship.

– Bill Ury –