To desire and expect nothing for oneself – and to have profound sympathy for others – is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Charles Dickens
I’m a holy man minus the holiness. E M Forster
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Dag Hammarskjold
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ‘I will be a saint’ means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God. Mother Teresa
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. Samuel Butler
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
True holiness consists in doing God’s will with a smile. Mother Teresa