Bible Quote by Tullian Tchividjian

“Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity in the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one…

— J. C. Ryle

“God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of the Holy…

— Jerry Bridges

“Never think of justification as something that happens solely at the beginning of the Christian life, as though, once you are justified, you then…

— Desmond Ford

“In justification, God imputes or counts over to the sinner the righteousness of Christ. In sanctification, God imparts the righteousness of the new life.…

— G.H. Gerberding

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

— Paul Washer

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said…

— Nancy Pearcey

“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

“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

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within,…

— John Bunyan

“Romans explains how God can justify the ungodly. "Justification" is a declaration by God that we are righteous only in Christ. We need justification…

— Desmond Ford

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not…

— Martin Luther