There is only one way of becoming holy, as God is: and it is the obvious one of opening the entire being to the all pervading presence of the Holy One. None of us can acquire holiness apart from God. It dwells in God alone. Holiness is only possible as much as the soul’s possession of God; no, better still, as God’s possession of the soul. It never can be inherent, or possessed apart from the Divine fullness, any more than a river can flow on if it is cut off from its fountain head. We are holy up to the measure in which we are God-possessed. The least holy man is he who shuts God up to the strictest confinement, and the narrowest limits of His inner being; partitioning Him off from daily life by heavy curtains of neglect and unbelief. He is holier who more carefully denies self, and who seeks a large measure of Divine indwelling. The holiest is the man who yields himself completely to be influenced, swayed, possessed, and inspired by that Spirit who longs to make us the fullest extent partakers of the Divine nature.

—F.B. Meyer