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Quotes About Sanctification

We talk as if living a sanctified life were the most uncertain and insecure thing we could do. Yet it is the most secure thing possible, because it has Almighty God in and behind it. The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Am I fully prepared to allow God to grip me by His power and do a work in me that is truly worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me—sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me. But He has to get me into the state of mind and spirit where I will allow Him to sanctify me completely, whatever the cost
~ Oswald Chambers
Am I willing and determined to hand over my simple naked self to God? Once I am, He will immediately sanctify me completely, and my life will be free from being determined and persistent toward anything except God
~ Oswald Chambers
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me—sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.
~ Oswald Chambers
Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God.
~ Oswald Chambers
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
~ Paul David Tripp
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness, and sanctification center, where flawed people place their trust in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he has designed.
~ Paul David Tripp
Many of us would be relieved if God had placed our sanctification in the hands of trained and paid professionals, but that simply is not the biblical model. God's plan is that through the faithful ministry of every part, the whole body will grow to full maturity in Christ. The leaders of his church have been gifted, positioned, and appointed to train and mobilize the people of God for this "every person, everyday" ministry lifestyle.
~ Paul David Tripp
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
~ Genesis 2:3
You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
~ Exodus 30:29
“Tell the Israelites, ëSurely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
~ Exodus 31:13
Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
~ Leviticus 6:27
For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
~ Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
~ Leviticus 11:45
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
~ Leviticus 20:7
And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
~ Leviticus 20:8
so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
~ Leviticus 21:15
by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”
~ Leviticus 22:16
You must not profane My holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,
~ Leviticus 22:32
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
~ 1 Kings 9:7
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
~ 2 Chronicles 7:20
“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
~ 2 Chronicles 29:5
I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
~ Ezekiel 20:12
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
~ Joel 2:16