Theme: Sanctification
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Christian perfection, therefore, does not imply an exemption either from ignorance or mistake, or infirmities or temptations. Indeed, it is only another term for holiness.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD’s sake, which we commonly do for our own.
But the world sees nothing of that inward, heartfelt devotion which makes all these actions pleasant and easy.
Devotion is the sweetest of sweets, the queen of virtues, the perfection of love.
As the will is the governing power in the man’s nature, if the will is set straight, all the rest of the nature must come into harmony.
As he grows in grace, he grows in isolation. He feels that God is detaching his life from all around it.
The one redeeming feature of the self-sufficient method is this—that those who try it find out almost at once that it will not gain the goal.
The secret of purity, and the momentum that shall keep us pure, comes through constant contact with Jesus.
In Christ the Holiness of God appeared in a human life: in Christ’s example we have the Holiness translated into human conduct.
Sanctity is in character and not in moods; Divinity in our own plain calm humanity, and in no mystic rapture of the soul.
If love is the milk of life, devotion is the cream thereof.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing!
God’s works are perfect in every stage of their growth. Man’s works are never perfect until they are in every respect complete.
Mortification itself, when once practised, is the greatest pleasure in the world.
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
When one attempts to sanctify himself by effort, he is trying to make his boat go by pushing against the mast. He is like a drowning man trying to lift himself out of the water by pulling at the hair of his own head.
God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but he called them that they might be holy.
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