sanctify

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To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.

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And should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify thy hand with the blow... John Chrysostom

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. William Penn

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. Yitzhak Rabin

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history. Huston Smith

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us. Samuel Rutherford

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. Francis of Assisi

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