Cecil Frances Alexander Quotes

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Saints need sinners.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.