Definition of Sanctification
Sanctification
The act of sanctifying or making holy; the state of being sanctified or made holy;
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.
The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration.
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Sanctification Quotations
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne
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
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames
Sanctification is not regeneration.
Matthew Simpson
Sanctification Translations
sanctification in French is sanctification
sanctification in German is Heiligung
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