Sanctification Quotes

“The word of God is a divine doctrine.”

— Lailah Gifty, Akita

“Actively pursue sanctification”

— Michael R. Van Vlymen

“Sanctification comes from the Holy Spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sanctification makes us pure in heart.

— William J. Seymour

“Salvation is sanctification of soul by the Blessed Saviour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How could be be sanctified? By avoiding sexual immorality.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

— John G. Lake

“Sanctification of the Spirit is the grace of salvation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

— Paul Washer

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

— Steven J Lawson

Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed.

— F. F. Bruce

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

— George Whitefield

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

— John Owen

Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

— Kevin DeYoung

“one of the great virtues of Christianity, according to (John)Wesley, is the way it fills up our every waking hour. Both (N.T.)…

— John Meunier

“We should wash ourselves clean from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, making our sanctification complete in the fear of God.…

— Beth Moore

“Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these…

— John Wesley

“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before…

— Robin Bertram

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as…

— Tullian Tchividjian

“God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason…

— Jon Morrison

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and…

— William Kilpatrick

“That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD’s sake, which we commonly do for…

— Brother Lawrence

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“But isn’t the whole idea of sanctification the fact that we’re not really there yet? That we’re still growing and becoming? Still…

— Matt Chandler

“Monastic spirituality concentrated on private disciplines, as if detaching oneself from "the world" (i.e. society) might make one holier. Anabaptist piety was…

— Michael S. Horton

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust…

— Anonymous

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord';…

— J. C. Ryle

“We grow in holiness in the honing of our specific vocation. We can't be holy in the abstract. Instead we become a…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is…

— Criss Jami

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It's not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally…

— Stephen Altrogge

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

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

“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

“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