My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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 had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.
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.
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.