Guidance & Wisdom
To be holy is to be Godlike, to have a disposition, a will, a character like God.
Make the fountain good, and the stream will be good.
The one redeeming feature of the self-sufficient method is this—that those who try it find out almost at once that it will not gain the goal.
Acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden into character.
Nothing, nothing, I say, nothing, but sound sanctification can abide the Lord’s fan.
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.
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life.
No man can change himself.
Heaven is a state of perfect holiness, and of continual love and praise to God and the wicked have no heart to this. The imperfect love, and praise, and holiness, which is here to be attained, they have no mind of.
Where God enters and rests, there is holiness; it is the presence of God makes holy.
Christian perfection, therefore, does not imply an exemption either from ignorance or mistake, or infirmities or temptations. Indeed, it is only another term for holiness.
True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing.
We can never be happy, restful, or spiritually healthy till we become holy.
Sanctity is in character and not in moods; Divinity in our own plain calm humanity, and in no mystic rapture of the soul.
A man had better be at the trouble of setting a bone, than to be lame, and in pain all his life.
Obedience is the path to holiness, because it is the path to union with God’s holy will.
Genuine Scriptural holiness will make a man do his duty at home and by the fireside.
To learn Christ is to be made like Christ, to have the divine characters of his holiness engraven upon our hearts: we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image.
Holiness is not something we do or attain: it is the communication of the Divine life.
Christ is the mainspring both of doctrinal and practical Christianity. A right knowledge of Christ is essential to a right knowledge of sanctification as well as justification. He that follows after holiness will make no progress unless he gives to Christ His rightful place.
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