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Sanctification is not regeneration. -- Matthew Simpson
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. -- William Ames
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. -- William Ames
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. -- John Donne
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. -- William Ames
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. -- Oswald Chambers
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. -- Charles Spurgeon
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us. -- Oswald Chambers
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. -- Paul Washer
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word. -- Jerry Bridges
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.' -- J. C. Ryle
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. -- Martin Luther
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth! -- John Bunyan
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. -- 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 traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character. -- Jerry Bridges
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. -- John Stott
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you. -- Charles Spurgeon
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us. -- John Owen
Sanctification is a community project. -- John Piper
Sanctification makes us pure in heart. -- William J. Seymour
Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ. -- John G. Lake
Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed. -- F. F. Bruce
Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort. -- Kevin DeYoung
Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God. -- Kevin DeYoung
Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on. -- Edward T Welch
We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification. -- Steve Camp
Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies. -- Charles Spurgeon
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name! -- William J. Seymour
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit. -- Charles Hodge
Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost. -- Oswald Chambers
Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man. -- J. I. Packer
Believe in the doctrine of perfect sanctification attainable in this life. -- Adoniram Judson
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification. -- Fred Hammond
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification. -- J. C. Ryle
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life. -- J. C. Ryle
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off. -- Bob Geldof
The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification. -- Tullian Tchividjian
There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us. -- William Jenkyn
If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration. -- Steven J Lawson
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification. -- Thomas Merton
To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification. -- W. Ian Thomas
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others. -- Larry Crabb
None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification. -- Matthew Henry
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
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
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
Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election. -- J. C. Ryle
Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee." -- George Whitefield
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin"¦by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin -- John Wesley
I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification. -- Matt Chandler
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling. -- Neal A. Maxwell
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously. -- Calvin Seerveld
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism. -- Jonathan Haidt
He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all. -- Richard Baxter
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation. -- Victoria Woodhull
The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure. -- G. Campbell Morgan
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted. -- Nancy Pearcey
The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ. -- Joseph Alleine
There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing. -- Lettie Cowman
Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own sanctification, but also for that of other souls. He wants to be helped in the salvation of souls. -- Pio of Pietrelcina

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