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Why is holiness so reviled? One reason is simply that the pursuit of holiness also involves the acknowledgment of sin and the necessity of repentance.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24
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The Lord Jesus beckons us in this way so that we may be purified from our natural love.
Watchman Nee • The Spiritual Man
We shall not rely upon our own morality and conduct and good behaviour.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
Let us keep in mind that, important as conscience is, it nevertheless is not our standard of holiness, because it is closely related to knowledge. Christ Himself is alone our single standard of holiness. But in the matter of fellowship with God, His one condition is whether or not we have maintained a conscience void of offense. Yet, having fully
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Going to the source of action is a major part of what he has in mind by saying that one must “go beyond the goodness of scribes and Pharisees.” One must surpass humanly contrived religious respectability “if one is to mesh their life with the flow of the kingdom of the heavens” (5:20).