Holiness
As ignorance of Christ’s righteousness is the reason why men go about trying to establish their own righteousness, so ignorance of how to live continually by the grace and strength of Christ is the reason why many turn to a lower standard of holiness, which is no holiness at all. [AFTG]
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You may be higher than other in gifts of knowledge, utterance, and learning, and those very souls may be higher than you in their communion with God, in their affections to God, and in their humble, holy, and unblameable walking before God. [PRASD]
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Just as the glory of kings is in the wealth and peace of their subjects, so the glory of Christ is in the grace and holiness of his subjects. [TGOC]
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When a man is savingly changed, he is deeply convinced not only of the danger but the defilement of sin. [ASGTH]
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Three men, asking one another what made them leave sin: one says, I think of the joys of heaven; another, I think of the torments of hell; but the third, I think of the love of God, and that makes me forsake it. How shall I offend the God of love? [TDOR]
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When Christ bore our sins, he bore them all, and made provision that his people should cease from sin. [ROOS]
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All who profess to be Christians but are not living holy lives are really renouncing obedience to Christ’s commands and despising his promises, preferring instead the pleasures of sin. Such people declare they have found nothing lovely in Christ’s commands, nor any happiness in keeping them, nor any assurance in Christ’s promises, nor any value in the things promised compared with the world and the pleasures of sin. [AFTG]
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Give up yourselves to (Christ), to walk with Him in holiness, or you shall never see God. [ASGTH]
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Cursed is the person who encourages you to come to Christ and allows you to think that you can still indulge one sin in your life. [TGOC]
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Let us not be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as elected to be ‘holy and without blame’ (Eph 1:4). [TBR]