R. C. Sproul Holiness Quotations

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.