Sanctification Quotes

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Sanctification is a community project.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

If we begin to study the Scriptures, our souls shall be sanctified.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Sanctification leads to renewal of the spirit.

Without sanctification, dwell in the state of impurity.

Sanctification of the Spirit is the grace of salvation.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

The word of God is a divine doctrine.

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

Sanctification of souls!

Salvation is sanctification of soul by the Blessed Saviour.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

Sanctification is rebirth of spirit of soul by the power of the Holy Spirit,

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys, ” but as our Father.

On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.

Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Jesus Followers are called to be reflectors of His character, servants of his grace, ambassadors of His message and magnifiers of His glory!” ~ © gfp '42