“Of one thing I feel very sure — it is nonsense to pretend to sanctification unless we follow after the meekness, gentleness, long-suffering, and forgiveness of which the Bible makes so much. People who are habitually giving way to peevish and cross tempers in daily life, and are constantly sharp with their tongues, and disagreeable to all around them — spiteful people, vindictive people, revengeful people, malicious people — of whom, alas, the world is only too full! — all such know little, as they should know, about sanctification” (J. C. Ryle, Holiness, 29).