SANCTIFICATION

See also: Holiness

To sanctify you wholly is to complete the work of purification and renovation begun in your regeneration.

Joseph Benson

He is not a Christian that thinks he is a finished Christian and is insensible how far short he falls. That man without doubt, has never so much as begun to be renewed, nor did he ever taste what it is to be a Christian.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Those who have been regenerated are also sanctified, by God’s word and Spirit dwelling in them. This satisfaction is progressive through the supply of divine strength which all saints seek to obtain, pressing after a heavenly life in cordial obedience to all Christ’s commands.

James Boyce

The change that takes place in a man when he is converted and sanctified, is not that his love for happiness is diminished but only that it is regulated with respect to its exercises and influences, and the course and objects it leads to when God brings a soul out of a miserable state and condition into a happy state of conversion, he gives him happiness that before he had not (namely in God), but he does not at the same time take away any of his love of happiness.

Jonathan Edwards

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Francis of Assisi

No sweat, no sanctification.

Russ Gaippe

Justification is at once an accomplished fact, but sanctification is gradual.

Abraham Kuyper

Sanctification is a gracious work of God, whereby in a supernatural way he gradually divests from sin the inclinations and dispositions of the regenerate and clothes them with holiness.

Abraham Kuyper

Our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for God’s sake which we commonly do for our own.

Brother Lawrence

Sanctification is that condition in which the sin principle is dealt with.

M. Lloyd-Jones

This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness; not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not what we shall be but we are growing toward it; the process is not yet finished but it is going on; this is not the end but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified.

Martin Luther

A soul may be in as thriving a state when thirsting, seeking and mourning after the Lord as when actually rejoicing in him; as much in earnest when fighting in the valley as when singing upon the mount.

John Newton

Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then he cleans them.

Mark Potter

Sanctification, in its place and proportion, is quite as important as justification.

J.C. Ryle

Contend to the death for the truth that no man is a true Christian who is not converted and is not a holy man. But allow that a man be converted, have a new heart, and be a holy man, and yet be liable to infirmity, doubts, and fears.

J.C. Ryle

We must remember throughout our lives that in God’s sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God’s place for us, at each moment.

Francis A. Schaeffer

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

George Whitefield