HOLINESS-DIFFICULTIES

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Any idea of getting beyond conflict, outward or inward, in our pursuit of holiness in this world is an escapist dream that can only have disillusioning and demoralizing effects on us as waking experience daily disproves it. What we must realize, rather, is that any real holiness in us will be under hostile fire all the time, just as our Lord's was.

J.I. Packer

God's Words: Studies of Key Bible Themes, Intervarsity Press, 1981, p. 195.

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The standard of practical holy living has been so low among Christians that very often the person who tries to practice spiritual disciplines in everyday life is looked upon with disapproval by a large portion of the Church. And for the most part, the followers of Jesus Christ are satisfied with a life so conformed to the world, and so like it in almost every respect, that to a casual observer, there is no difference between the Christian and the pagan.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life. Christianity Today, v. 32, n. 11.

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Some people get so caught up in their own holiness that they look at the Trinity for a possible vacancy.

John MacArthur

Leadership, v. 7, n. 2.

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