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Quotes About Sanctification

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
~ Thomas Merton
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.
~ Kevin DeYoung
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
~ Richard Sibbes
Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God
~ Jerry Bridges
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.
~ Kevin DeYoung
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.
~ Nancy Pearcey
We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!
~ Vincent de Paul
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.
~ Lettie Cowman
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
~ N. T. Wright
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
~ Francois Fenelon
God called us to live a holy life by his grace.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We must clean ourselves of any impurity.We must clear our cities of any dirt."For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness." 1 Thessalonians 4:7
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We are saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth of Christ Jesus, Son of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?
~ Qur'an 2 30
Sanctification leads to renewal of the spirit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.
~ Ed Welch
As the great work of the sanctification of our souls is to be begun by humility, so must it be completed by the same
~ Alban Butler
All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man, and consequently faithful in his Master's work. Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that which you persuade them to believe, and heartily entertain that Savior whom you offer to them.
~ Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
~ Richard Baxter
Es algo temible ser un creyente nominal sin estar santificado, pero es más terrible ser un predicador no santificado.
~ Richard Baxter
It is God's purpose in our salvation that we should be holy, and therefore those who are predestined to salvation are predestined to holiness.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
~ Richard Sibbes