God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.
We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.
Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly.
The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age. . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.
Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.
To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
