Top Sanctification Quotes

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained...

Sanctification Definition

(n.) The act of sanctifying or making holy; the state of being sanctified or made holy;

(n.) the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified.

(n.) The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration.

When we love God in sincerity and with consistency, He gives us the desires of our heart. And as we love Him how we should be loving Him, our desires are somehow supernaturally conformed to be His des...

If we begin to study the Scriptures, our souls shall be sanctified.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The mo...

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

Without sanctification, dwell in the state of impurity.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another part of...

Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They want God to take them as they are and let them stay that way. They want Him to take a...

We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

How could be be sanctified? By avoiding sexual immorality.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturit...

one of the great virtues of Christianity, according to (John)Wesley, is the way it fills up our every waking hour. Both (N.T.) Wright and Wesley write that Christianity is not just about what God does...

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.