Holier Than Thou Quotes

“If God is holy, then He can’t sin. If God can’t sin, then He can’t sin against me. If He can’t sin against me, shouldn’t that make Him the most trustworthy being there is?”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The soil from which all sin grows is unbelief.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“We have supposed that the way to help people be holy is to just tell them to “stop sinning,” when in fact, lasting transformation is a spiritual consequence of “beholding the glory of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18). That’s why we’re here: to behold. To set our sights on a higher love. To see who Adam hid from, who the psalmist sang to, who the prophets spoke for, who the disciples walked with, and who Jesus made known.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“No one worthy of our entire selves, and I believe that as you see Him as He is, you’ll want to be just like Him too.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“We have supposed that the way to help people be holy is to just tell them to “stop sinning,” when in fact, lasting transformation is a spiritual consequence of “beholding the glory of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18). That’s why we’re here: to behold. To set our sights on a higher love.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The soil from which all sin grows is unbelief. We sin because it is our nature to do so, but it’s not as if we always sin unintentionally, like depraved robots without the ability to behave according to reason. We are thoughtful with our rebellion. There is a level of reasoning within us when we decide which golden calf we’ll love on any given day.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Now, compare God to everything and tell me what you see. What I hope you noticed is that everything that exists has a beginning, is a derivative, is contingent upon something else for its life. Paul describes our lot as creatures, pointing to how it’s only in God that we “live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Can the same be said about God? Of course not. This is what is referred to as God’s transcendence. It means that God is totally unique from everything there is. God doesn’t exist and cannot exist in the same way as we do or anything for that matter; setting Him apart from all creation as a being that is distinct from it: holy. So, in this, we see that God’s holiness is about moral purity, yes, and it’s also about transcendent, self-existing otherness. It’s about being totally right and eternally existent. Which, of course, only God is.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The Lord is holy beyond comparison, for His holiness is not derivative of of some other source. His holiness is intrinsic to His nature as God. It’s as essential to Him as creaturely dependence is to us. Of all the songs to sing to one another, of all the divine attributes worth praising God for, Isaiah saw the seraphim make melody around the supreme holiness of God.

(Holier Than Thou, pg. 20)”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Holiness is what makes real love possible. Without it, love is purely sentimental, easily misplaced, and unconditionally conditional.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Sin at its core is selfish. Holiness at its core is self-giving.”
― Jackie Hill-Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Can you see that just like the young ruler, what we believe about God will determine how we behave?”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“From this faith in God, fruit grows. Holiness shows up in us, making us trustworthy, honest, self-controlled, gentle, wise, pure, and more. As obvious as it seems, our own efforts at sanctification are not always framed in this way—that faith in Christ and who He has revealed God to be precedes holiness.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Isn’t it interesting how simply being in proximity to God creates a moral self-awareness in Isaiah and others?7 That there is something about God that is so pure, even if unspoken, that when near Him, it becomes so plain that nothing is like Him, especially in terms of righteousness. It is not as though God did anything for Isaiah to be so terrified. God didn’t even tell Isaiah He was holy at all; the seraphim did. God didn’t move, come near, rise up or down; He simply sat, and that was enough for Isaiah to see his own wickedness. Just by being close, Isaiah’s heart and its ways were impossibly noticeable.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“He is Lord because He is King and Creator. From Him came all things, the heavens and the earth of course. The world is His, with it are the hills, on it are the cattle that know Him as maker: “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine” (Ps. 50:10–11). God is Lord over the heavens, the earth that holds us, and Lord of the body to which we try our hardest to keep to ourselves.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Holiness (and goodness) should never be determined by the whims, wishes, and standards of a created thing or even a whole culture. Especially when that culture’s ideas are so easily influenced by deceitful hearts within it, as well as overall mutability, taking different shapes in conformity to its era.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“If that is the case, I suspect that many of the methods and messages related to holiness may actually be encouraging the opposite, leading to an earth-grown morality rather than a heaven-sent righteousness.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Our relationship to the law isn’t worth celebrating fourteen days into February. However we learned about it, whether through counsel or conscience, we responded by resisting all of the goodness it had to offer, proving something deep and dark about ourselves. Mainly that we don’t like to be like God. That’s not to say that our sinfulness isn’t a parody and a rather silly way of deifying ourselves. The serpent still incentivizes unbelief by promising that it will make us “like God,” but our motive has never been to be like God in terms of righteousness but of rights.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“For what other reason do we choose anything over God if isn’t because we think it and not Him can give us what we need? How often have we looked to the creature and called it Savior, without words, but by faith? For every empty bottle of wine, drunk to the dredges without self-control’s restraint, there is the proof of a soul wanting to find peace in something that doesn’t have it to give. Even social media thrives most on our neediness and the way it makes us discontent in being known and loved by God and God alone.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“When God tells you that your life will be lost if and when you try to save it, but losing it for His sake is where you will find it, believe Him. Christ will not allow you to find life any other way because there is no other way. Devils will tell you that it’s possible to live without God, but reality as Christ told us is that there is no life outside of Him.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The serpent still incentivizes unbelief by promising that it will make us “like God,” but our motive has never been to be like God in terms of righteousness but of rights.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“After seeing the holy God, Isaiah then saw himself. What he knew instantly was that between him and God, only one was truly holy. In the presence of the Lord, his guilt was obvious, his sins were bright, uncovered, exposed, broadcasted without a screen. Loud without a button to mute them or a finger to shush the noise. He confessed the defilement of his tongue which communicated the pollution native to his nature.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“However, holiness is not an aspect of God; holy is who He is through and through.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“There is a level of reasoning within us when we decide which golden calf we’ll love on any given day.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“Who wants to love God above all things when there are so many deficient alternatives for which to place our affections? The gods they collected were an incomplete thing. Like cisterns broken all up, wasting water all over the place. These lesser gods were unable to make anyone who trusts in them whole; neither could they transcend their created nature if ever they were asked to deliver. But, Israel loved their idols still, and so do we.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The soil from which all sin grows is unbelief. We sin because it is our nature to do so, but it’s not as if we always sin unintentionally, like depraved robots without the ability to behave according to reason. We are thoughtful with our rebellion. There is a level of reasoning within us when we decide which golden calf we’ll love on any given day. With that said, the foundation of our idolatry, the sin begetting all others, is a specific belief about God.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

“The contemporary man keeps
his Bible closed in an attempt to quench its light. Others manufacture half-truths about God or refuse orthodoxy as a way to keep the Son out.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him