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The way to grow in holiness is to be around people more holy than ourselves. We hear their stray comments and absorb their judgment of what?s important. We listen to their prayers and find that God is bigger than we?d thought. Oswald Chambers
Jerry Bridges (20th century)
Oh be ashamed, Christians, that wordlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls; to make sure of those things that at last will be their burden, their bane, their plague, their hell, than you are to make sure of those things that would be your joy and crown in life, in death, and in the day of your account. Thomas Brooks (1608-81)
Sanctification is an immediate work of the Spirit of God on the souls of believers, purifying and cleansing of their natures from the pollution and uncleanness of sin, renewing in them the image of God, and thereby enabling them, from a spiritual and habitual principle of grace, to yield obedience unto God, according unto the tenor and terms of the new covenant, by virtue of the life and death of Jesus Christ. Or more briefly: It is the universal renovation of our natures by the Holy Spirit into the image of God, through Christ. Sinclair Ferguson (20th century)
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child?s garments. William Gurnall (1616-79)
I define spirituality as the ability to close the time gap between the moment we sin and the moment we realise that we have sinned and therefore grieved the Holy Spirit. R.T. Kendall (20th century)
Sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves. Brother Lawrence (1611-91).
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Holiness is a moral condition before it is a moral activity, and the activity flows out of the condition. Peter Lewis (20th century)
Holiness is not something about which we should make appeals to people. It is our business to set scriptural doctrine before them, and the man who really believes what he claims to believe is a man who must be urgently concerned about this question of his sanctification. If this doctrine of sanctification is unimportant to anyone, then such a person is just confessing that he or she is not a Christian. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
We must realise that there is no need to denounce people who are not living the holy life. The New Testament seems to me to be sorry for them. There is no need to denounce Christians who are not doing their utmost to live the Christian life, because, poor things, they are suffering enough as it is. They are missing the greatest things the gospel has to give. The New Testament regards as pathetic these people who claim that they desire the blessings of the gospel and yet are not doing the one thing that is essential to receiving them. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
Be as holy as you can, as if there were no gospel to save you. Yet when you are as holy as you can, you must believe in Christ as if there were no law at all to condemn you. Thomas Lye (17th century)
Of course we can come to Jesus just as we are, but if we come away from conversion just as we were, how can we call it conversion? John MacArthur (20th century)
Justification, which frees us from misery, is not so great a privilege as sanctification, which frees us from sin. Thomas Manton (1620-77)
God delights in our holiness, seeing it as an infusion of his own beauty. John Piper (b. 1947)
The test of whether our faith is the kind of faith that justifies is whether it is the kind of faith that sanctifies. John Piper (b. 1947)
Boast not of Christ?s work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit?s work in you. J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)
Justification gives us our title to heaven, and boldness to enter in. Sanctification gives us our meetness for heaven, and prepares us to enjoy it when we dwell there. J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)
I have seen some very lean men who said that they were perfectly holy. I could almost believe that they could not sin, for they were like old bits of leather. There did not appear to be anything in them that was capable of sinning. I met one of these ?perfect? men once: he was just like a piece of seaweed ? no humanity in him. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-92)
We are to become holy as God is holy. Of course the finite cannot attain the infinite. But as the asymptote of the hyperbola ever approaches it but never attains, so we are eternally to approach this high and perfect standard. Ever above us, the holiness of God yet is ever more and more closely approached by us; and as the unending aeons of eternity pass by we shall grow ever more and more towards that ever-beckoning standard. That is our high destiny and it is not unfitly described as partaking in the Divine Nature. B.B. Warfield (1851-1921)
What greater crime than holiness, if the devil be one of the grand jury! Thomas Watson (1620-86)
To enjoy heaven we must become heavenly. God could not cease to be God; therefore he could not make us, like himself, perfectly happy, unless he made us, like himself, perfectly holy. Octavius Winslow (1808-78) |
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