A.W. Tozer

“God is not now any holier than He ever was. And He never was holier than now. He did not get His holiness from anyone nor from anywhere. He is Himself the Holiness. He is the All-Holy, the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word to express, beyond the power of all praise.”

“Language cannot express the holy, so God resorts to association and suggestion. He cannot say it outright because He would have to use words for which we know no meaning. He would have to translate it down to our unholiness. If He were to tell us how white He is, we would understand it in terms of only dingy gray.”

“It was a common thing in olden days, when God was the center of Human worship, to kneel at an altar and shake, tremble, weep and perspire in an agony of conviction. We don’t see it now because the God we preach is not the everlasting, awful God, mine Holy One? (Habakkuk 1:12), who is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity? (Habakkuk 1:13)”

Excerpt from one of A.W.Tozer’s sermons on the Holiness of God.