Sanctifies Quotes

#1. Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrows all her rays from sense.

Alexander Pope

#2. The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age ... for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

Pope Leo I

#3. A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Hosea Ballou

#4. An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Samuel Richardson

#5. O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written
Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

Herman Melville

#6. Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place a dualism which separates the supernatural from the natural.

Henry R. Van Til

#7. God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#9. God designs that those whom He sanctifies ... shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.

David Brainerd

#10. You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Will Durant

#12. This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

Jeremy Taylor

#13. The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

John Calvin

#14. I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#15. We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

Gregory Palamas

#16. Everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right
his goal sanctifies all.

George Sand

#17. Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

George Santayana

#18. When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

John Owen

#19. God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

T. B. Joshua

#20. Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

William Burkitt

#21. 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

#22. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Lord Acton

#23. It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

C.N. Bovee

#24. Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

Josemaria Escriva

#25. It is thoroughly Scriptural and right to say "faith alone justifies." But it is not equally Scriptural and right so say "faith alone sanctifies.

J.C. Ryle

#26. The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Upton Sinclair

#27. Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

Charlotte Armstrong

#28. Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#29. The ethical life ... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society ... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

Roger Scruton

#30. Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#31. And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#32. The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Martha Beck

#33. Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

Edward Joseph Young

#34. The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

Robert H. Schuller

#35. A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.

Robert E. Murray