He was cleansed from original sin, and filled with sanctifying grace, was made a prophet, and adored the Messiah before he was yet born.
Having labored almost forty-five years in regulating and sanctifying his diocess, he died at Aichstadt on the 7th of June, 790, being eighty-seven years old.
Holy Spirit and the glory of your Best Friend, and earnestly entreat him to mingle his sanctifying unction with the treasures of Divine Truth contained in these earthen vessels!
This is the spring whence rise the rivers of forgiving and sanctifying grace.
It revealed the corruption of the natural heart, but provided no renovating and sanctifying grace.
He is at once the bleeding sacrifice, the sanctifying altar, the officiating priest, the prophet of Israel, and the Prince of Peace.
But his renovating andsanctifying grace is as much needed now as ever, and therefore has never been taken from the world.
The sudden burst of music, the sudden song of the mourners announced the birth of the sanctifying flame.
And does it not argue a want of faith in the truth as a sanctifying and saving power?
They perceive that the doctrines of Purgatory and eternal torment have not had a sanctifying influence upon mankind in all the sixteen centuries in which they have been preached.
Our Lord's prayer was, "Sanctify them through thy truth," So truth has a sanctifying power.
That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.
But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel: 29:24.
Nor doth our sanctifying of it, to the ends for which it is ordained, lie in a bare confession that it is such; but in a holy performance of the duty of the day to God by Christ, according to his word.
This is the way to improve the love of God for thy advantage, for the subduing of thy passions, and for sanctifying of thy nature.
This, I say, thou hast in the notion, and hast not the power of the same in thine heart, and so it may be thine head is full of the knowledge of the scriptures, though thine heart be empty of sanctifying grace.
Henceforth heathenism has lost them, and Christ has placed His sanctifying hand on all they have and all they are.
For example: render the words, sanctification of the Spirit, or the sanctifying influences of the Spirit, by Purity in Life and Action from a pure Principle.
Where, the precious sanctifying hope of the coming of Christ to receive His people to Himself?
Therefore the divine person is not given only according to the gift of sanctifying grace.
But the gifts belonging to the perfection of the intellect are not gifts of sanctifying grace, since they can be held without the gift of charity, according to 1 Cor.
And yet the Holy Ghost is possessed by man, and dwells within him, in the very gift itself of sanctifying grace.
Therefore the divine person is not sent only according to the gift of sanctifying grace.
Since then the creature's sanctification is by sanctifying grace, it follows that the mission of the divine person is only by sanctifying grace.
Thus it is manifest that one mission cannot be without the other, because neither takes place without sanctifying grace, nor is one person separated from the other.
Objection 1: It would seem that blessing and sanctifying are not due to the seventh day.
Further, the mission of the divine person is according to sanctifying grace.
Objection 1: It would seem that the invisible mission of the divine person is not only according to the gift of sanctifying grace.
Therefore it is improperly said that the divine person is sent according to the gift of sanctifying grace.
He wants to come so into our hearts that we shall live, as Holy Ghost men, the sanctified life, with the sanctifying power of Jesus running through our whole beings.
The same awe-inspiring, soul-subduing, purifying, sanctifying Presence rose before him as hitherto.
Not until the tempter came, did I fully realize what God had done in sanctifying me.
The work of the Holy Spirit upon their hearts in sanctifying them, caused them to see and flow together.
At the same time that the alguazils were thus distributing free their sanctifying blows, other persons, to console the recipients, distributed candles and tapers of different sizes, also free.
In like manner, he who asks for the renewing and sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost exercises faith, in these influences.
If this is not at all supposable, in the case of an affectionate earthly parent, much less is it supposable that God the heavenly Father will refuse renewing and sanctifying influences to them that ask for them.
They suppose it has in itself a sanctifying and saving power.
Questioned as to her method of sanctifying meals, she answered: "In the refectory we have but one thing to do: perform a lowly action with lofty thoughts.
I cannot fear Purgatory; I know I do not merit to enter, even, into that place of expiation with the Holy Souls, but I also know that the fire of Love is more sanctifying than the fire of Purgatory.
If, then, suffering itself has such a sanctifying power, this will belong in an even higher degree to death, which is more feared than any suffering.
Next He raises them in the first instant of creation to the supernatural order by the gift of sanctifying grace.
The Holy Ghost infuses into our hearts sanctifying grace, by which we become pleasing to God, and we can call Him Our Father.
And the whole is crowned by the promise of Jehovah's presence with the people, sanctifying and protecting them from His sanctuary.
That is divinely impossible; and therefore Jehovah must carry through His purpose by sanctifying Himself in the salvation of Israel.
One should next proceed, O virtuous one, to the most sacred tirtha of the illustrious Dadhicha, that sanctifying tirtha which is celebrated over the whole world.
Arriving next at the tirtha named Viraja one shineth like the moon, and sanctifying his race rescueth it and is himself cleansed of all his sins.
And those tigers among men and repressers of foes, daily slaying those wild animals and sanctifying them properly, offered them unto the Brahmanas.
Proceeding next to the asylum of Sarabhanga and that of the illustrious Suka, one acquireth immunity from misfortune, besides sanctifying his race.
He that bathes in Viraja further reapeth the merit of giving away a thousand kine besides sanctifying his line.
How weary the Holy Ghost must get of sanctifying them!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sanctifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
