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 sanctific...
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.
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.
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. J...
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.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.
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.
most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.
Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
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 ...
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.
The work of redemption is applied to individuals definitively (in justification), progressively (in sanctification), and completely (in glorification). In the same way, the work of redemption is applied universally to the kingdom definitively (in its...
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.
