Sane Teaching on Holiness God's Way of Holiness is one of the many books by which Horatius Bonar extended his influence far beyond his parish. Some of his books and tracts were translated into French, German, and Gaelic. He that would be like Christ, moreover, must study Him. We cannot make ourselves holy by merely trying to be so, any more than we can make ourselves believe and love by simple energy of endeavor. No force can effect this.
Men try to be holy and they fail.
They cannot by direct effort work themselves into holiness. He that would be holy must feel his responsibility for being so, both as a member of Christ's body and a partaker of the Holy Ghost. Our spiritual constitution must be braced, not only that we may be strong for work or fight, but that we may be proof against the infection of the times, against the poison with which the god of this world, 'the prince of the power of the air,' has impregnated our atmosphere. He produces life, and life is always varied. It is death that repeats itself.