Hiddenness of:
A God who let us prove His existence would be an idol. (Dietrich Donhoeffer)
For silence is not God, nor speaking; fasting is not God, nor eating; solitude is not God, nor company; nor any other pairs of opposites. He is hidden between them and cannot be found by anything your soul does, but only by the desire of your heart. (The Cloud of Unknowing)
Holiness of:
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness. (Anthony Bloom)
Holiness in angels and saints is but a quality, but in God it is His essence. (Thomas Brooks)
There is danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals, not first the love of God, but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love as the center of that holiness. (Oswald Chambers)
A true love of God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this. (Jonathan Edwards)
The pervasive sinfulness of man becomes evident when contrasted with the radiant holiness of God. (Richard Foster)
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy Name,
In earth and sky and sea;
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
(Reginald Heber)
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. (Matthew Henry)
God is holy with an absolute holiness that knows no degrees, and this He cannot impart to His creatures. But there is a relative and contingent holiness which He shares with angels and seraphim in heaven and with redeemed believers on earth as their preparation for haven. This holiness God can and does impart to His children. He shares it with them by imputation and by impartation, and because He has made it available to them through the blood of the Lamb, He requires it of them. (A. W. Tozer)
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