The Pursuit of the Holy Quotes

“Whatever the ongoing operation of sin in the believer’s life, it is temporal and without eternal consequence. It may accuse, but it cannot condemn. It has no power to undo what God has done. Sin cannot rob me of my rights. It cannot reverse God’s decree and declaration over my life. It is an irritant whose days are numbered. Whatever its presence, its power in my life is broken, its penalty covered. It seeks to undermine God’s work in me and God’s will for me—but it cannot cancel out my new true identity as one united with Christ, or my security of eternity with Christ.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Thorough sanctification can never be a veneer of externals.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Not to pursue sanctification is to trample the blood of Jesus underfoot (Heb. 10:26–29)—it is to make a mockery of the misery and mercy of Calvary.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“So we see that God imputes positional sanctification (justification) to us in a moment, the instant one believes and receives. This initiates the Christian life but then leads to a practical sanctification process, whereby we as Christians, established righteous through Christ’s righteousness imputed to us, then seek to become practically what we are positionally. Jürgen Moltmann emphasized that sanctification as a gift leads to sanctification as a charge.11”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“John Oswalt said, To measure our acceptance by God on the basis of absolutely perfect performance of holiness, is to condemn ourselves to failure. God is the only one whose performance is absolutely holy.18”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Holiness is a way of behaving that is determined by the being of God. David Peterson calls it a life “possessed by God”—a life that becomes like the God who possesses holiness.8”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation