How Sanctification Is Received

1.  We must have a Divine revelation of our own need of sanctification before we will seek to obtain it.  We must see for ourselves that we are not sanctified, and that we must be sanctified if we would be happy.  The first thing God does often to bring us where we will see this, is to make us thoroughly ashamed of ourselves by letting us fall into mistakes and by bringing our frailties to our notice.  In these humiliating self-revealings we are able to see where we are not righteous, and we are made to learn that we cannot keep our resolutions of amendments that we make in our own strength.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel