Bear Quote by L. Lionel Kendrick

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

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no…

— J. C. Ryle

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners, with no…

— J. C. Ryle

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 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

“The process of sanctification is an addiction to holiness, a compulsive fixation on Christ and an impulsive pattern of compassion, virtue and love. This…

— William M. Struthers

“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

“Again, there are multitudes who are quite ready for Christ to justify them, but not to sanctify. Some kind, some degree, of sanctification they…

— Arthur W. Pink

“Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for believers to…

— Thomas C. Oden

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

— Francois Fenelon

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

— John G. Lake

“In Christ every believer has a once-for-all positional holiness, and from this new identity every Christian is commanded to grow in the ongoing-for-your-whole-life process…

— Kevin DeYoung