Sanctification Quotes
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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.
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New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.
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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.
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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.
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Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.
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There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.
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There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.
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That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.
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Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn for and hate it. In other words, at the cross God becomes larger and we become smaller. This separation is at the heart of the fear of God. This "fear" opens God's wisdom to us because only in light of God's immensity can I see the importance of living for the right end, his glory. And only in the light of my smallness can I feel overawed by the means he used to save me, his cross.
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Sanctification makes us pure in heart.
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Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!
