Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
– Thomas Aquinas –
Holiness
August 25, 2013
Until the church is holy there’ll be no rapture – I don’t care what theory of the rapture you have.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
August 12, 2013
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Ian Thomas –
August 11, 2013
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
– Oswald Chambers –
August 10, 2013
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray –
August 9, 2013
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
– AW Tozer –
August 8, 2013
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin
– Jerry Bridges –
from The Pursuit of Holiness
July 15, 2013
Every Christian who seeks to advance in holiness should remember this: there may be intense consecration and fervent zeal, and if the Lord himself does not step in, there may be unconscious self-exalation. Let us learn the lesson that the greatest holiness comes in the deepest humility.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
July 6, 2013
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam’s descendents.
– AW Pink –