#sanctification

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another part of what we absorb is greater confidence in Jesus' counsel and his promises. This has its own powerful effect on what we fear and desire and choose. Another part of what we take up from beholding the glory of Christ is greater delight in his fellowship and deeper longing to see him in heaven. This has its own liberating effect from the temptations of this world. All these have their own peculiar way of changing us into the likeness of Christ. Therefore, we should not think that pursuing likeness to Christ has no other components than just looking at Jesus. Looking at Jesus produces holiness along many different paths. ↗

— John Piper

#god #holiness #jesus-christ #sanctification #change

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#saint #sanctification #sin #attitude

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#sanctification #beauty

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#church #confession #conversion #forgiveness #paul-david-tripp

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#faith #inspirational #lds #patience #sanctification

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#sanctification #experience

If you yield yourself up to His divine working, the Lord will alter your nature; He will subdue the old nature, and breathe new life into you. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will take the stony heart out of your flesh, and He will give you a heart of flesh. Where everything was hard, everything shall be tender; where everything was vicious, everything shall be virtuous: where everything tended downward, everything shall rise upward with impetuous force. The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#god #sanctification #anger

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#fellowship #friendship #holiness #sanctification #unity

To progress is always to begin always to begin again ↗

— Martin Luther

#progress #salvation #sanctification #forgiveness

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#change #dissonance #sanctification #age