"From long experience and observation, I am inclined to think that whoever finds redemption in the blood of Jesus - whoever is justified - has the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path. I believe the Holy Spirit at that time sets before him the 'more excellenet way' and incites him to walk therein - to choose the narrowest path in the narrow way - to aspire after the heights and depths of holiness - after the entire image of God. But if he do not accept this offer, he insensibly declines into the lower order of Christians; he still goes on in what may be called a good way, serving God in his degree, and finds mercy in the close of life through the blood of the covenant." ~ John Wesley
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Blameless, not Faultless
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"C. H. Spurgeon once wrote as follows: "There is a point of grace as much above the ordinary Christian as the ordinary Christian is above the world." Of such he says: "Their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft. They are rejoicing Christians, holy and devout men doing service for the Master all over the world, and everywhere conquerors through Him that loved
them..."
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Taken from the introduction of New Testament Holiness by Thomas Cook (republished in full here: http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0401-0500/HDM0410.PDF )