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 Copy Share Image
The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
I believe in a cause that for a man to preach salvation, he must first be saved, for him to preach deliverance,… — Samule Kermis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“We should wash ourselves clean from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, making our sanctification complete in the fear of God.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“If the first Adam was formed from dust, and the second conceived of Spirit and born of woman, then the coming of… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live… — Dag Heward-Mills Copy Share Image
We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification. — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“If we focus on our actions without addressing our hearts, we may end up merely as better behaved lovers of self (...)… — Jen Wilkin Copy Share Image
“When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of… — Mary W. Tileston 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
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
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
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
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
“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
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Most would sooner attend a conference on self-esteem and self-realization than listen to one sermon on sanctification, without which no one will… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
