Discipline toward holiness begins then with the Scriptures – with a disciplined plan for regular intake of the Scriptures and a disciplined plan for applying them to our daily lives.
Copied from The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges, © 1996, p. 97. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com. All rights reserved. Get this book!
As we read and study the Scriptures or hear them taught, we are captivated by the moral beauty of God’s standard of holiness.
Copied from The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges, © 1996, p. 74. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.com. All rights reserved. Get this book!
Mark it down – your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the Word of God.
Holiness, The Heart God Purifies, Moody Publishers, p. 131. Get this book!
Scripture is the unalterable rule of holiness.
Why We Need the Puritans by J.I Packer taken from A Quest for Godliness by J.I. Packer, copyright 1990, Crossway Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org. Page 24.
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
The Still Hour or Communion with God, 1974, p. 64, by permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA..
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Ghost, when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart, and makes him practically godly in life. The instrument by which the Spirit effects this work is generally the Word of God, though He sometimes uses afflictions and providential visitations “without the Word” (1 Peter 3:1). The subject of this work of Christ by His Spirit is called in Scripture a “sanctified” man.
Taken from Holiness by J.C. Ryle, Moody Publishers, copyright 2010, p. 47.
