Quotes About Sanctification

These realities must be sanctified; we must not think that a person is holy just because he has made vows. One with this outlook thinks of the hour of spiritual reading or prayer as the only time for the spiritual life and ignores the longer time dedicated to work and everyday living. The result is at best an anemic and unreliable religious personality.

God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

God's will is that we, as His people, be separated unto Him for His purpose. As believers, we should endeavor to pursue that sanctification at any cost.

The ability to be totally immersed in the world of history, politics, and economics, and yet remember God is the way of the most holy masters. Thus Joseph is called in Kabbalah the tzaddik or "righteous one." Tzaddik is a term for a holy person, but in Judaism a person is also required to sanctify the world. It

He's so good to give us the bitter moments of life that, in his mercy, keep us dependent on him, that remind us that this earth is not a believer's home, that so much "better" awaits us in every way. And he gives us the sweet moments to encourage us in our sanctification journey, to give us a taste of the eternal, of his goodness. He gives us both because he knows what we need better than we know ourselves. And his timing is always perfect. And aren't we grateful?

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.

Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.

When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These mens conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a mans justification.

In Christ are riches of Justification; in Christ are riches of sanctification, riches of consolation, and riches of glorification...Christ's riches are like the eternal springs of the earth, that cannot dry up, but are and shall be diffused by his Spirit and gospel, until his whole house be filled with them.

Levison pointed out, however, that in ancient Jewish texts the divine Spirit is also associated with creation of the world, sanctification of the righteous, eschatological blessings, and human enablement.

This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It tells us we'd be better off with pleasure in hell than sanctification in heaven.

God is more interested in our character, our future, and our sanctification than He is in our momentary satisfaction. His answers are always an act of grace, motivated by His love.

The Gospel presents us with the righteousness of Jesus Christ, who, in his earthly life, perfectly interpreted the word of his Father. In so doing he justified the fallible attempts of his people to interpret the word. The justification of our hermeneutics by the perfect hermeneutics of Christ is the motivation for us to strive for hermeneutical sanctification.

Just as the Son delights in the holy law of His Father, even so the Spirit of God promotes the law as the pattern of our sanctification. Neither the Son nor the Spirit can be placed in opposition to the Father's law; if this were not so the unity of the Trinity would be dissolved.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable