God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.
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.
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
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.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
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