Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement."
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Holiness
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Roland Allen
Missionary
"The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness."
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be."
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God."
John Brown
Abolitionist, Military Leader
"Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills."
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"The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him."
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"Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him."
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"But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive."
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"Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life."
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"Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it"
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"Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile."
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"Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin."
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"Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness"
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"The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe."
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"I'm a holy man minus the holiness."
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"Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy."
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"When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted."
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"Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?"
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"God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ."
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"I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there."
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"Holiness is doing God's will with a smile."
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"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
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"Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit."
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"We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength."
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"You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible."
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