Quotes About Salvation

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

How childish is   the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were   chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be   worthy." We

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind. Let

Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. We

But we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election of God.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee. .

Moreover, in the passages we have already quoted, the angels of children are said to behold the face of God, to defend us by their protection, to rejoice in our salvation, to admire the manifold grace of God in the Church, to be under Christ their head.

Without Christ, on the   other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful   confusion. We

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

For if anyone is to possess righteousness by faith, it must necessarily be given by God and proffered to us by his Word.

a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Our Divine Master does not say unless a man be born again he shall not but, unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same

Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

God would even have forgiven Judas Iscariot, had he asked for His forgiveness. Judas wasn't damned for betraying Christ. He was damned for despairing, for rejecting the possibility that he might be forgiven for what he had done.

Jesus on the cross was not declaring that God had abandoned Him. He was stepping into the full psychological calamity of our fallenness … He was asking your question. Feeling exactly what you feel when you believe you've been abandoned by a Father who never abandons anybody.

People must realize that the Christian begins from the finish line. Robert Capon says brilliantly, "the flat announcement of the Gospel turned out to be that the saints were home before they started. God saves us single-handedly!"19 We are already inner healed. Just turns out that most folks don't know it. It is all a completed work of grace.

The Good News of Jesus Christ is not another religion. Rather, it is the universal announcement of the end of all worldwide religion. It is a catholic message for all of humanity: that God is no longer in the religion business. He stepped down and accomplished salvation for us all single-handedly.

Joy is not just a substance or an emotion – it is a person. Christ has become our inexhaustible joy.

God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead.

The person of Jesus is not simply a door into experience, He is the destination.

Repentance is not the price tag for salvation; it is a first fruit of salvation.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine