“sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.” — Ed Welch Copy Share Image
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self. — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on. — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
“There is a sanctification in sacrifice–that’s where the Greek word comes from. Now whether you take that sanctification (or holiness) literally or… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“In this sense, then, sanctification is primarily the process of redemption. It is process precisely because it is moral and personal and… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes… — David McIntyre Copy Share Image
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Keep yourselves from idols." The warning isn't given to them because it wasn't a real danger or because there was an off… — Joe Thorn Copy Share Image
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“I was intrigued. I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: “If I was… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
“With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus' flesh, with nothing on God's side to prevent us from entering, why do… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Indeed is it not the case that in this matter of sanctification our tendency is always to start with ourselves, instead of… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“In justification, God imputes or counts over to the sinner the righteousness of Christ. In sanctification, God imparts the righteousness of the… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm… — John Owen Copy Share Image
