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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.
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.
Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.
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.
Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.
I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.
When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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