I. GOD IS HOLY
Power is God's hand and arm, omniscience his eye, mercy his bowels, eternity his duration, his holiness is his beauty... —Stephen Charnock, A Discourse on the Holiness of God
He is absolutely distinct from all His creatures and is exalted above them in infinite majesty. —Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology
God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine. —Aiden Wilson Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
II. THE HOLINESS OF GOD
A. Scriptural References:
Lev 20:26; Isa 6:3; Rev 4:8; 15:4
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard. He is absolutely holy with an infinite, incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is. Because He is holy, His attributes are holy; that is, whatever we think of as belonging to God must be thought of as holy. God is holy and He has made holiness the moral condition necessary to the health of His universe. —Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy