Definition of Sanctification

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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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