The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.
– AW Tozer –
Holiness
September 15, 2011
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard. He is absolutely holy with an infinite, incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is. Because He is holy, all His attributes are holy; that is, whatever we think of as belonging to God must be thought of as holy.
– AW Tozer –
September 14, 2011
It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. We are told to let our light shine, and if it does we won’t need to tell anybody it does. The light will be its own witness. Lighthouses don’t ring bells and fire cannon to call attention to their shining—they just shine.
– DL Moody –
September 12, 2011
The great test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it be manifest in the increasing humility it produces. In the creature, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. In Jesus, the holy one of God who makes us holy, a divine humility was the secret of his life and his death and his exaltation; the one infallible test of our holiness will be the humility before God and men which marks us. Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness.
– Andrew Murray –
September 4, 2011
We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
– Hudson Taylor –
September 3, 2011
A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine.
– DL Moody –
September 2, 2011
The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.
– AW Tozer –
September 1, 2011
The only things that we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
– CS Lewis –
August 30, 2011
There must be a divorce! Within the egg of sin there sleeps the seed of damnation! Man, there must be a divorce between you and your sins. Not a mere separation for a season, but a clear divorce. Cut off the right arm; pluck out the right eye, and cast them from you, or else you cannot enter into eternal life.
– Charles Spurgeon –