If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
The Brothers Karamazov
Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.
Tag: truth god religion holiness the-brothers-karamazov conversion
The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath…Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made. Mercy is what we need and that is what we receive at the foot of the cross.
Billy GrahamTag: holiness
That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”
“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.
Tag: language holy priest holiness cursing cussing
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTag: evil sin intolerance gratitude holiness sanctification
Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!
Israelmore AyivorTag: fear truth honesty deception integrity free lie brave fact purity sincerity holy true false falsehood food-for-thought honest intimidation holiness clean no-fear truthful faithful pure deceive intimidate israelmore-ayivor clean-heart be-truthful bravity pure-word tell-the-truth yours-faithfully
The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.
Jerry BridgesTag: sin holiness holy-spirit
So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
Jerry BridgesWe are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Jerry BridgesTag: sin repentance holiness holy-spirit
We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.
Jerry BridgesWe must be careful to let the Holy Spirit do this searching. If we try to search our own hearts, we are apt to fall into one or both of two traps. The first is the trap of morbid introspection. Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the "accuser" (Revelation 12:10). One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited, we will not fight the battle for holiness. The second trap is that of missing the real issues in our lives.
Jerry BridgesTag: holiness holy-spirit discouragement
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