Continuing the Contemplation of Holiness

The quotes are so powerful - we would do well to meditate on them for a few days:

Horatius Bonar: Holiness extends to every part of our persons, fills up our being, spreads over our life, influences everything we are, or do, or think, or speak, or plan, small or great, outward or inward, negative or positive, our loving, our hating, our sorrowing, our rejoicing, our recreations, our business, our friendships, our relationships, our silence, our speech, our reading, our writing, our going out and our coming in—our whole man in every movement of spirit, soul, and body.

Richard Shelley Taylor: Holiness is inwrought by the Holy Spirit, not because we have suffered, but because we have surrendered.
 

Nathanael Emmons: Holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Anonymous: Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God 

Anonymous: Holiness is not so dependent on a flawless record, but a cleansed life

Thomas Brooks: True holiness makes a man divinely covetous

H A Ironside: The secret of Christian holiness is heart occupation with Christ Himself

Walter Rauschenbusch: Holiness is goodness on fire.

A. W. Tozer: The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.

Thomas Boston: Holiness is a constellation of graces.

Spurgeon: Holiness is not the way to Christ; Christ is the way to holiness. Better still, Christ is our holiness

Spurgeon: I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness, which remains in him.

Leonard Ravenhill: The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

Ask yourself these questions about the things you give your heart and life to”

• Does this glorify God? 1 Cor. 10:31 Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do all for the glory of God.


• Is this consistent with the lordship of Christ? 1 Cor. 7:23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.


• Is this consistent with biblical examples? 1 Cor. 11:1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.


• Is this lawful and beneficial for me—spiritually, mentally, physically?

1 Cor. 6:9-12 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

• Does this help others positively and not hurt others unnecessarily? 1 Cor. 10:33 just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 Cor. 8:13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.


• Does this bring me under any enslaving power? 1 Cor. 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.