Hi Class! Here are the quotes that I told you I would put up on the website from last weeks lessons - enjoy! If you wanted to do some more reading around them, then feel free to follow the links to the original sources :)
Justification
Justification is the placing of a divine seal of approval upon the course of conduct pursued by righteous people. It is the approval of the Holy Spirit of the lives being lived by members of the Church. It is a divine ratification of the way of life of the true saints. It is being sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise (Elder Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith [1985], 102).
Sanctification
To be sanctified is to be clean; it is a state of purity and spotlessness in which no taint of sin is found. Only those who die as to sin and are born again to righteousness, becoming thus new creatures of the Holy Ghost, are numbered with the sanctified. . .
. . . In the lives of most of us, sanctification is an ongoing process, and we obtain that glorious status by degrees as we overcome the world and become saints in deed as well as in name. (Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, 265–66).
Priorities
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1988, 3; or Ensign, May 1988, 4 ).
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