Quotes About Salvation

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

Of course, there were other motives as well for their migration to the New World. But many believed that Native Americans had descended from ancient Israel—from the "ten lost tribes" dispersed soon after the exile in the Old Testament—and that their salvation was a necessary component of the conversion of "all Israel" that would precede the return of Christ (Rom. 11:11–36).

As long as desire is banished from the kingdom of Heaven, there will always be a long line at the Gates of Hell.

All that was left within him longed to just make it right, to just somehow make it right again.

The hardest people to talk with about Jesus are not the people who are far from God and who know they are far from God. Those people are often eager to hear about Jesus' love and forgiveness. The hardest people to talk with about Jesus are religious people — baptized but not born again, members of an earthly church but not members of Christ by faith.

Maybe even God himself needed companionship, needed something outside of himself. Perhaps he was trapped in his own head, like I am, and finally found his salvation through the creation of the universe and sentient life.

I am the door! By me, if any man enters in, he shall be saved and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but to steal, kill and destroy.

Christ who is your life,' (Col 3:4): This identification reflects the relentless Christological focus of Colossians.

baptism puts us in contact with the death of Christ (vv. 3–4); (2) because we share in Christ's death, we also will share in his resurrection (vv. 5, 8–10); (3) sharing in Christ's death means freedom from sin (vv. 6–7).

And, at the risk of generalizing unduly, we might suggest that here as well is the point of contact for the application of the message of Colossians to a wide variety of historical and contemporary teachings. Any teaching that questions the sufficiency of Christ — not only for "initial" salvation but also for spiritual growth and ultimate salvation from judgment — falls under the massive christological critique of Colossians.

To assert that a man can lose his salvation through what he does or does not do is to assert, in the final analysis, salvation by works.

Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.

This covenant with Abraham, confirmed to him in Christ, was a covenant which by its very nature could not be annulled (Gal. 3:17). We can see how God has fulfilled His promise to Abraham; it is by the blood of this everlasting covenant that we as Christians are saved (Heb. 13:20). The covenant made with Abraham is still in force today; this glorious covenant made with Abraham millennia ago is nothing other than the new covenant.

A man cannot simultaneously want the salvation of God, and desire to remain in the sin from which God saves.

Christ is begotten from the dead and so all the nations of men belong to him.

The future, like salvation, is the gift of God, and it must be apprehended by faith alone.

Husbands, the world is watching you. You are to model what the saving looks like. Wives, the world is watching you. You are to model what the salvation looks like. Why is the world not streaming to the rod of Jesse? Why are the nations not turning away from their folly? Is it because the gospel the Church is presenting to them is a gospel that looks too much like our marriages?

We are not born again because we have repented and believed. Rather, we have repented and believed because God has given us the new birth. If the old heart is capable of repentance and belief, then a man does not need a new heart. He simply needs to continue to improve the old one.

Never forget that God loves you. But more than this, never forget how long God has loved you.

Jesus came into the world to save us from our sins, and our political sins are not exempt from this salvation. Why would our political sins (which frequently have been among our foulest sins) be excluded? Jesus

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

50. And (remember) when We separated the sea for you and saved you and drowned Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people while you were looking (at them, when the seawater covered them). 51. And (remember) when We appointed for Moosa (Moses) forty nights, and (in his absence) you took the calf (for worship), and you were Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.).

82. And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allaah -- Islaamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell therein forever.

5 A salvação do mundo depende de ti que podes perdoar. 6 Essa é a tua função aqui.