Quotes About Christian Sanctification

#1. When i see ahead,its dark, when i see behind, its dark. It's only my present which is bright, thus darkening everything beyond and behind.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#2. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.

John Wesley

#3. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75

William Kilpatrick

#4. Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.

John Piper

#5. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.

Donna Leon

#7. Knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating ... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.

William Jenkyn

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

Stephen Davey

#10. Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

Tullian Tchividjian

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

Paul Cezanne

#13. When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

Jaime Camil

#14. Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

J.C. Ryle

#15. A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

J.C. Ryle

#16. Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!

Herge

#17. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#18. In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Frederick William Robertson

#19. The whole of the Christian life, from election to justification to sanctification to final glorification, is made possible by and is an expression of our union with Christ.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. 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