Sanctification

“With this large sampling of [NT] appeals to be sanctified (1) by striving and (2) in pursuit of approval, where did the idea emerge that we should ‘cease striving’ and eschew ‘approval’?” - DBTS Blog

“Watson warns that as we ease off in pursuing our relationship with God, we open ourselves to the temptations of the devil, for a fallow field bears weeds rather than wheat, and a fallow life bears sin rather than sanctification.” - Challies

“there is another damaging variety of focus on the extraordinary, one that minimizes most sin by emphasizing some. One way this happens is when some forms of behavior are routinely singled out for censure.” - Ken Brown

“Many of the Puritans believed that habits gave a person the capacity for greater obedience in the future…..’every act of obedience doth increase the ability to obey. Every step reneweth strength.’” - Ref21

The Fundamentals of Sanctification and Cultural Fundamentalism - Don Johnson

“The Puritans believed that habits were a means of cultivating spiritual maturity in the believer by giving a believer a greater capacity for future obedience, by uniting a believer’s will to God’s, and by conforming a believer to the image of Christ.” - Ref21

“The source of the problem, ultimately, is a general sense, born out of sentiments endemic in broader culture, and perpetuated at times in Christian homes and churches, that cultivating discipline and developing a work ethic are somehow dangerous, legalistic, or antithetical to the Christian Gospel. This is patently false.” - Snoeberger

“the Puritans have much good to say, and Reeves and Ortlund have mined their depths, found their gems of wisdom, and repackaged their truths in modern language.” - DBTS

“The best of us are like these few acres of natural beauty in the midst of a city chock-full of suburban sprawl and industrial ugliness. But there is one who perfectly mastered the art of living a true, beautiful, and perfect life.” - Challies