Top 100 Quotes About Sanctification
#1. God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish." (Life Hacks, p.61)
Jon Morrison
#2. Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne
#3. What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
N. T. Wright
#4. Union with Christ is the foundational basis for sanctification and the dynamic force that empowers it.
Robert Letham
#5. Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Oswald Chambers
#6. 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
#7. The Bible is a novel that's crazy ... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.
Fred Hammond
#8. All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
A.W. Tozer
#9. Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.
David F. Wells
#10. 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
#11. A sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
John Owen
#12. 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.
Rick Joyner
#13. To progress is always to begin always to begin again
Martin Luther
#14. But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
Mark Buchanan
#15. 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
#16. Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. 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
#19. Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
F.F. Bruce
#20. Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something else, and you lose both.
Michael S. Horton
#21. As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
Matt Chandler
#22. Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.
John G. Lake
#23. 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.
Lauren F. Winner
#24. The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames
#25. 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.
#26. The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.
Joseph Alleine
#27. Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants.
Oswald Chambers
#28. Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#29. If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
Sheri Dew
#30. I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
Victoria Woodhull
#31. The dark times are there for you to grow and to create a dependency on God. This is all part of your sanctification process.
Michael Barbarulo
#33. Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
Jerry Bridges
#34. Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.
Matthew Henry
#35. The Holy Spirit has not only imputed Christ's righteousness to us in justification but he is also imparting Christ's righteousness to us in sanctification.
Michael G. Brown
#36. Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.
Jerry Bridges
#37. 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.
Tom Payne
#38. 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
#39. 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.
Ernest F. Kevan
#40. God has brought me to Kentucky ... the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
Thomas Merton
#41. Sanctification costs to the extent of an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
Oswald Chambers
#42. Even though this seems rather plain, we Christians can easily become confused about what sanctification is. Instead of emphasizing its connection to the Lord and his Word, we can make it merely about certain external behaviors and mind-sets, select methods and practices.
Kevin DeYoung
#43. We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends us to the Gospel that we may be justified; and the Gospel sends us to the law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.
Samuel Bolton
#44. Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.
Richard J. Foster
#45. 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
#46. Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
J.I. Packer
#47. We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God.
Robin Bertram
#48. 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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#49. We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.
Paul Washer
#50. You are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God - and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. - 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30
David Jeremiah
#52. We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.
Steve Camp
#53. 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
#54. 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.
Oswald Chambers
#55. Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
Jonathan Haidt
#56. Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames
#57. The process of sanctification includes saturation, transformation, growth, and building up.
Witness Lee
#58. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
John Ortberg Jr.
#59. Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off chance someone might fall into idolatry. It was given because this is our root problem on any given day. It is what we, especially as followers of Jesus, must fight against.
Joe Thorn
#60. The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
Tullian Tchividjian
#62. Although sanctification may not be perfect in thee anywhere in degree, yet it must be universal in its action; there must not be the appearance of holiness in one place and reigning sin in another,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. William Temple in the nineteenth century, I like to remind myself and others that the only thing you contribute to your salvation and to your sanctification is the sin that makes them necessary.
Tullian Tchividjian
#64. Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own sanctification, but also for that of other souls. He wants to be helped in the salvation of souls.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#66. I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
Calvin Seerveld
#67. If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.
Steven J. Lawson
#68. The promise of sanctification is able to turn what may feel like a test today, like a trial by fire - like way more temptation or trouble than we can handle - into a muscle-building exercise that strengthens our spiritual core.
Matt Chandler
#69. One of the great virtues of Christianity, according to (John)Wesley, is the way it fills up our every waking hour. Both (N.T.) Wright and Wesley write that Christianity is not just about what God does for us but what God does in us.
John Meunier
#70. 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
James MacDonald
#71. 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
#72. Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
Charles Hodge
#73. All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.
Jen Pollock Michel
#74. Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners.
Michael S. Horton
#75. We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.
Jerry Bridges
#76. Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.
Edward T. Welch
#78. God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of the Holy Spirit and is carried forward by His continued action in our lives.
Jerry Bridges
#79. Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.
John Wesley
#80. In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'
J.C. Ryle
#81. Sanctification is at base a tenacious grip on the robe of Christ, a wrestling with the Lord to bless us, a sojourn in the valley of death in pursuit of a city we cannot see.
Kevin DeYoung
#82. Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life.
Adoniram Judson
#83. Justification is the act of God about us and is not easily discerned by others. Sanctification is the work of God within us and cannot be hid
J.C. Ryle
#84. Sanctification is a process. It is a gradual process. Run for your life from those who promise you instant sanctification.
R.C. Sproul
#85. By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin ... by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
John Wesley
#86. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
#87. When it comes to sanctification, it's more important where you're going than where you are.
Kevin DeYoung
#89. 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
#90. Although all believers are subject to many failings and can fall before the smallest temptation, their determination to continue in the faith and their gradual and progressive sanctification are great evidences of salvation and provide a solid ground for assurance. 1
Paul David Washer
#91. Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."
George Whitefield
#92. It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.
Stephen Davey
#93. If you dwell often on the truth that God is Lord and orders everything, even the frustrations, for our sanctification (Hebrews 12:511; cf. Romans 8:28ff.), you will find yourself able increasingly, even in the most maddening moments, to "keep your cool" - and that is best of all.
J.I. Packer
#94. Holiness is not a bid to be noticed or loved or accepted by God. Holiness, rather, is acting out and acting upon the truth that God has noticed, loved and accepted us long before we did anything to warrant that.
Mark Buchanan
#95. The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.
G. Campbell Morgan
#97. Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.
Tim Lane And Paul Tripp
#99. Luther's objection to the antinomian preachers of his day, who were "fine Easter preachers but disgraceful Pentecost preachers, for they taught only redemption through Christ and not the sanctification through the Holy Spirit."16
Mark Jones
#100. 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.
Richard Rohr
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