Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.