Leviticus 19:2 (NIV) "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.'"
Ephesians 1:4 (NIV) For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
"Saying yes to God means saying no to things that offend His holiness." —A. Morgan Derham
Quoted in Men of Integrity, (September/October '99), Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "HOLINESS".
