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I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.