Sentences with phrase «sanctification means»

Sanctification means growth in holiness (or wholeness and health — the root word is the same).

So sanctification means separation from sin and from the ways of the world.

But true sanctification means something quite different.

Such steadfastness within the love of God and such experience of its fruit are what total sanctification means.

Not exact matches

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

What we know as the traditional image of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing of the death of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification of «time» and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation of eternity into time.

Through sanctification we begin to understand what it means to live under the rule and reign of God, and we begin to see other people as God sees them, and ourselves as well.

In the liturgy «sacred» means «the glorification of God and the sanctification of the faithful».

And, as we shall see in a later chapter, this is the basic meaning of Christian perfection and sanctification.

If God's scandalous relationship with the 12 thugs means anything, then we should expect a variegated spectrum of righteousness and be patient — or repentant — when such sanctification doesn't meet out expectations.

In the old days, they used to call this «holiness» or «sanctification» — both words we don't hear much because they lost some meaning by their misuse perhaps.

We can not indicate the main dimensions of sin without looking at the meaning of sin, salvation, and sanctification.

We are to become like Christ (cf. 1 John 3:1), which, as Hendriksen points out, means sanctification.

This is the basic meaning of the theological term «sanctification.»

If «good works» mean sanctification, submitting to the Holy Spirit's leading and transforming work then eternal life will be of a different quality than for the person who resists change?

Abstinence in this view often seemed to be presented as the ideal, or at least as the main, means to union with God and the sanctification of one's life.

Faith in God means faith in justification, a faith which rejects the idea that certain actions can be marked off as conveying sanctification.