Quotes About Salvation

Who continues in God's Word and experiences freedom in Christ. John 8:31–32 states, "So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

If you have found the Cross and made Jesus your personal Savior, nothing can stop you from discovering the rest of God's plan for your life. All you have to do is choose to obey Him.

God not only provided the sacrifice and made coverings of skins, but also clothed Adam and Eve with them. They did not clothe themselves. When it comes the the robe of righteousness and the garment of salvation we do not put it on, God puts it on us. He clothes us with righteousness.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. —Romans 8:18–25,

In his general audience on April 22, 1998, Pope John Paul II stated, "We must not forget that for Christians the 'eschaton,' that is, the final event, is to be understood not only as a future goal, but as a reality which has already begun with the historical coming of Christ.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effectual means of extirpating [extinguishing] Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.25 Dr.

God loves to forgive.

In Jesus we hear God saying to us, "What you cannot do for yourself, I myself will do. Your sin stands between us, and you cannot remove it, so I will do it for you. My blood will cleanse your sins, and I will remember them no more. Nothing will stand between us. I will rise from the dead so that you can live. My love is too strong for death to conquer. Once alive, I will invite you to die and rise with me. Eternal life is now available. It is in my Son.

for God raised Jesus from the dead for the sake of shepherds and children and poor folks and all of us who worry a lot about security but can never finally make ourselves safe.

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

the expectation that he will come again—in fulfillment of all human longing at the end of time. "Parousia" is the technical name for this expectation; "eschatology

He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved." Matthew 24:13

Who is God except our Lord? Who is a rock except our God? The God who girds me with strength and makes my way blameless. He makes me as sure footed as a deer so that I can stand on the mountain tops. He trains my hands for battle so that I can bend a bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your help has made me great. I pursued my enemies and overcame them. I did not turn back until they were destroyed.

For any sin or spiritual defect there was a remedy, a penance that would clear the slate, in what came to be a "mathematics of salvation.

Murió para salvarte, dijo Teresa. Fue su elección. No la desperdicies.

We exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to save the world from catastrophe.

No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.

The actual companionship of the Holy Ghost, the divinely--bestowed right to His ministrations, the sanctifying baptism with fire, are given as a permanent and personal possession only to the faithful, repentant, baptized candidate for salvation; and with all such this gift shall abide unless it be forfeited through transgression.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God's presence in Jesus' solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than "going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly." It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side." The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

But if the Christus Victor motif is not tethered to penal substitution, we might conclude that human beings are merely victims of sin, held in thrall by evil powers.

Salvation clearly involves forgiveness of sins, but this forgiveness is itself rooted in a person getting freed from Satan's grip, and therefore freed from the controlling power of sin.