Quotes About Salvation

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.

One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. (Ps. 50:15)

It's nothing short of astonishing that a religious tradition with this relentless emphasis on salvation and one so hyperattuned to personal sin can simultaneously maintain such blindness to social sins swirling about it, such as slavery and race-based segregation and bigotry.

For more than two decades, as the temperature climbed in Mississippi race relations, Reverend Hudgins built brick by brick a theological bulwark of personal and individual salvation, designed to protect white Christian power and white Christian consciences from black demands for justice.

He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.

Death had no power over me because it had no power over Christ, and Christ lives within me. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in me -- and all Christians.

Confess your sins, worship God, and get on with your life. You can experience the mercy of God no matter what you've been through.

but our sin will never change the truth of who we are in Christ.

Justification Justification means that God not only has forgiven me of my sins but also has granted me the righteousness of Christ. Because of justification, I bear Christ's righteousness, and I am therefore fully pleasing to the Father (Rom. 5:1).

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus." (EPH. 2:4–6)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (ROM. 8:1)

We must give up our own efforts to achieve righteousness and instead believe that Christ's death and resurrection alone are sufficient to pay for our sin and separation from God.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God!

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

elitist reading of Scripture is not designed to foster saving faith in the crucified and risen Jesus but frequently assumes the repugnancy of the gospel diagnosis of the human condition and its remedy.

nunca serás un hombre sabio, vaya, ni siquiera un hombre razonablemente inteligente, pero el amor y tu sangre te hicieron dar un paso, incierto pero necesario, en medio de la noche, y el amor que guió ese paso te salva

The chief danger of the twentieth century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell. —William Booth

Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.

The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory." That's what Psalm-118 says. I've learned over the past year that, in-the end, Christ is the only victory that counts. Trials will come. Battles will be fought. But Christ alone is my victory. I want to live each and every day in Him and in His victory.