“Sanctification is rebirth of spirit of soul by the power of the Holy Spirit,” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“Our sanctification is more like a Weight Watchers program than listening to a book on tape.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“What many call 'plundering the Egyptians' is nothing more than dumpster diving in Egypt.” — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us. — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image
God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter… — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“We may be content to remain what we call 'ordinary people': but He is determined to carry out a quite different plan.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Even though this seems rather plain, we Christians can easily become confused about what sanctification is. Instead of emphasizing its connection to… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“View sexual purity as a walk, not a destination. You won’t find sexual purity on any map. So don’t expect to arrive… — Alan Sharpe Copy Share Image
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“To be sanctified, in other words, means that we are both already (definitively) sanctified in Christ and continually being (progressively) sanctified in… — Marcus Peter Johnson Copy Share Image
“Again, there are multitudes who are quite ready for Christ to justify them, but not to sanctify. Some kind, some degree, of… — Arthur W. Pink 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
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
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
“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
The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“If we begin to study the Scriptures, our souls shall be sanctified.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
![“For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man…” quote by John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/john-stott-1926_assertion_for-the-essence-of-sin-is-man-substituti_715800.jpg)
