Aspect Quote by J. I. Packer

Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but…

— Charles Hodge

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful…

— Jerry Bridges

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and…

— J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

— William Ames

“What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,…

— Westminster Assembly

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to…

— J. C. Ryle

“Genuine sanctification has a ‘continued orientation toward justification.”

— G C Berkouwer

“In this sense, then, sanctification is primarily the process of redemption. It is process precisely because it is moral and personal and not simply…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“To be sanctified, in other words, means that we are both already (definitively) sanctified in Christ and continually being (progressively) sanctified in Christ. Third,…

— Marcus Peter Johnson

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

— William Ames

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not…

— Oswald Chambers

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often…

— William Ames