Quotes About Salvation

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.

For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned

How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?" Answer: "Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - John Calvin (from his catechism)

Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture. If

give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.

There has been nothing in heaven or on earth which has not witnessed that Jesus Christ is God, Lord and Master, and the great Ambassador of the Father sent here below to accomplish the salvation of mankind. All

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.

The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal. Therefore

It is at this point that the gospel differs most from philosophy, since it teaches that the salvation of men is through the free remission of sins. It

If a man does not hold on to Christ, his wisdom is mere folly, even though he comprehend heaven and earth; for all the treasures of heavenly wisdom are contained in Christ. Therefore

Christ, therefore,   died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.