Holiness is the state of being holy or sacred. Holiness is being clean or pure, to be holy is to be like a god. Holiness may also refer to:
- Holiness movement, a specific tradition within evangelicalism
- His Holiness, an official style of address in reference to the leaders of several religious groups
- Holiness code, found in the Bible at Leviticus 17-26
Holy may refer to:
- Holý, a Czech surname
- Holy (In Strict Confidence album)
- Holy (U.D.O. album)
- "Holy" (Bottom episode)
- "Holy" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
- "(One Glance Is) Holy", a song by Mike Oldfield
- "Holy...", a song by Sadist from Crust
- Holy, a powerful white magic spell in the Final Fantasy series
- The Holy, a novel by Daniel Quinn
Famous quotes containing the word holiness:
“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)
“Say next to holiness is the will thereto,
And next to love is the desire for love,
The desire for its celestial ease in the heart,
Which nothing can frustrate, that most secure,
Unlike love in possession of that which was
To be possessed and is.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)