About Living a Holy Life Well
Pleasing to God
(First five are also on "jesusreigns" web page )
"The life of Christ is the holiness of Christ. The reason we so often
fail in the pursuit of holiness is that the old life, the flesh, in its own
strength seeks for holiness as a beautiful garment to wear and enter heaven
with. It is the daily death to self out of which the life of Christ rises
up." -A.W.Tozer
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"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. We are not
only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is
vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above
and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to
live consistent lives!" - J. Hudson
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"Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study,
or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian
work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it.
- J. Wilbur Chapman 1859-1918
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"The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The
greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes
to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him,
and work as if it all depends upon you." - Bob Jones, Sr. 1883-1968
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"I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own. If you think
you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ,
you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to
Jesus. - Dr. Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892
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" But we do consider it possible that one may experience a great crisis in his spiritual life, in which there is such a total surrender to God and such an infilling of the Holy Spirit, that he is freed from the bondage of sinful appetites and habits, and enabled to have constant victory over self, instead of suffering constant defeat. In saying this, what more do we affirm than is taught in that scripture: "Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Gal. 5:16). - Dr. A.J. Gordon
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"... as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." 1 Peter 1: 15, 16
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The following are excerpts from:
"AN EVERYDAY EXHORTATION: BE
YE HOLY!" by: A. W. Tozer
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"...Peter has given every Christian a forceful exhortation to holiness of life and conversation. He clearly bases this exhortation on two great facts--first, the character of God, and second, the command of God." - A. W. Tozer
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"His argument comes out so simply that we sophisticates stumble over it--God's children ought to be holy because God Himself is holy! ...Peter was an apostle and he is here confronting us with the force of an apostolic injunction, completely in line with the Old Testament truth concerning the person and character of God and also in line with what the Lord Jesus had taught and revealed to His disciples and followers." - A. W. Tozer
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"Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness--a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blameless ness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree"
"Whenever it is written that God is holy it means that God is kind, merciful, pure and blameless in a white, holy intensity of degree. When used of men, it does not mean absolute holiness as it does of God, but it is still the positive intensity of the degree of holiness--and not negative."
"This is why true Bible holiness is positive--a holy man can be trusted. A holy man can be tested. People who try to live by a negative standard of piety, a formula that has been copyrighted by other humans, will find that their piety does not stand up in times of difficult testing."
"Genuine holiness can be put into the place of testing without fear. Whenever there is a breakdown of holiness, that is proof there never was any real degree of holiness in the first place."
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"First, bring your life into line morally so that God can make it holy; then bring your spiritual life into line that God may settle upon you with the Holy Ghost--with that quality of the Wonderful and the Mysterious and the Divine." - A. W. Tozer
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"So there are qualities in God that can never be explained to the intellect and can only be known by the heart, the innermost being. That is why I say that I do believe in feeling. I believe in what the old writers called religious affection--and we have so little of it because we have not laid the groundwork for it. The groundwork is repentance and obedience and separation and holy living! I am confident that whenever this groundwork is laid, there will come to us this sense of the other-worldly Presence of God and it will become wonderfully, wonderfully real." - A. W. Tozer
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"Urgently do we need a revival of personal godliness. Sanctified men are the salt of society.... " - Charles H. Spurgeon
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“A clean heart filled with the Spirit makes a soul-winner out of the man who receives the blessing. It was so on the day of Pentecost, when the disciples, having their hearts purified by fire and filled with the Holy Spirit, won three thousand souls to the Lord in one meeting. With the blessing of a clean heart comes a passion of love for Jesus, and with it a passionate desire for the salvation and sanctification of men. It makes apostles, prophets, martyrs, missionaries, and fiery-hearted soul-winners. It opens wide and clear the channel of communion between God and the soul, so that His power, the power of the Holy Ghost, works through him who has a clean heart, surely convicting and graciously converting and sanctifying souls.” -- Samuel Brengle