Quotes About Salvation

The people were created in the image of God and thus they were within the precinct of His grace, even the ones who didn't know Him...the ones who withdrew themselves from His presence.

It pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water) till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved.

I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far.

Vindication. Salvation. Redemption. And then? Well... happily ever after, of course. What else?

Come, There is a way to be good again

There is a way to be good again

It Does not Frighten Me To Leave This Life That My Only Son Left Five Years Ago, This Life That Insist We Bear Sorrow Upon Sorrow Long After We Can Bear No More. No I Believe I Shall Gladly Take My Leave When The Time Comes. What Frightens Me Is The Day God Summon Me Before Him And Asks. How Shall I Explain Myself To Him. What Will Be My Defense For Not Heeding His Commads.

If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.

The good news of Jesus is not just that we get out of hell free, but that we become like Jesus himself and are made able to live and reign with him forever in the new heaven and the new earth.

the flesh is a "fisher of men.

Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting his holy name, which drives away the fear of death.

Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.