 Some saints have been sanctified by the easy and determined practice of all the virtues, but there are others who owe their sanctification to having endured with perfect resignation the privation of every virtue. Author: Madame Guyon |
| We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace. Author: Jerry Bridges |
| We are brought into God's Kingdom by grace; we are sanctified by grace; we receive both temporal and spiritual blessings by grace; we are motivated to obedience by grace; we are called to serve and, finally, we are glorified by grace. The entire Christian life is lived under the reign of God's grace. Author: Jerry Bridges |
| Associate with sanctified persons. They may by their counsel, prayers, and holy example, be a means to make you holy. Author: Thomas Watson |
| It is absurd to imagine that God should justify a people and not sanctify them, He should justify a people whom He could not glorify. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
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| Children's conscientiousness in lessons, and fairness in playing games, and command of temper, may yield as true a proof of sanctification begun, as do the integrity of the adult, and his firm adherence to principle in matter of merchandise. Author: Andrew Bonar
Source: Banner of Truth magazine |
| Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Romans - Tyndale New Testament Commentaries |
| If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God. Author: John Bunyan
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all who are chosen are chosen to sanctification. Author: Matthew Henry |
| The one marvelous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus manifest themselves in my mortal flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you."... Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy; it is drawing from Jesus the holiness that was manifested in Him, and He manifests it in me. Author: Oswald Chambers
Source: My Utmost for His Highest, July 23. |
| Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul. Author: A.W. Pink |
