Quotes About Salvation

He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.

He knew that it is as difficult for a rich man to go to heaven as it is for a camel to go through the gate in Jerusalem called the Needle's.

only the Holy Spirit permits us to become aware of the gravity of sin and of the tragedy of the loss of the sense of God, and gives the desire for conversion. But our love for mankind cannot be resigned to seeing them deprive themselves of salvation. We cannot directly produce the conversion of souls, but we are responsible for the proclamation of the Faith, of the totality of the Faith and of its demands.

man is saved with the world and not from it.

If one of the damned could just once say 'My God, I love you' it would no longer be hell for him.

Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile being, fixed, cast in a mold once and for all. This is what makes the traditional psychological novel so different from what I did or thought I was doing. The human being as I conceive him in the novel is a being caught up in the drama of human salvation, even if he doesn't know it.

love is the only thing we have to save us

Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They're all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning.

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.

Our salvation depends on not who we are but on who He is

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.

that you will know and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and learn who you are in Him.

God salts the earth with the faithful because those who cling to the Lord in faith through all circumstances preserve the rest from complete destruction.

nobody is born a Christian? The war over a soul begins before a baby even draws breath.

Jesus did not come to enhance our lives. He came to save us.

God made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ROMANS 13:11

For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek him.