“Holiness is a return to Eden’s ideal and a taste of paradise. The holy life is a foretaste of heaven on earth. It is not God’s burden for us but God’s best for us.” (source)
“‘everything begins and ends in our Christian theology with the holiness of God.’1” (source)
“Our holiness is never a factor in God’s love for us—all our efforts cannot increase his love one iota. The call to holiness is the call from love to love; our pursuit of holiness is the straight highway of response of our love for the Beloved.” (source)
“holiness is not simply about commands to comply with; it is about a state to live in.” (source)
“Holiness, then, is one of the most central concepts in biblical theology” (source)
The pastor of theology at St. Aldates Church in Oxford, England, Simon Ponsonby is author of More, God Inside Out, and And the Lamb Wins. He holds two degrees in theology from Trinity College Bristol. A passionate evangelist and thoughtful theologian, Simon is married to Tiffany and they have two children.