Quotes About Salvation

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.

The gospel is the good news that God is doing a completely new thing in Jesus - demonstrating divine righteousness, making people right in relationship to God and each other, forgiving sins, liberating from the prison of Sin. Such a gospel frees from guilt - actions that break covenant with God - and overcomes shame - makes right the broken relationships that put people down and make them angry. God's salvation restores shalom.

Most of the prophecies explicitly or implicitly incorporate some hope for the nations—for instance, by escaping judgment or finding mercy after judgment.

What is the homeland to which we are running? Christ said: "I am the Truth." You run through Him, you run to Him, and you rest in Him.

Help me, Lord, I'm slipping through. Help me, Lord, I'm falling. I'm being pulled in to a dense black hole from which there's no returning. It's yawning wide; it's sucking me in, but there's nothing to see. It's black as sin. Help me, Lord, I'm sinking down. Help me, Lord, I'm drowning... Adrian Rumble

Death, and every death, is the fruit of sin: death temporal, death spiritual, death eternal.

Time is compared to golden sands running between two eternities, and 'tis an infinite mercy they are still running, that you have a day to work out your salvation, to agree with your adversary while he is in the way [Matt. 5:25; Phil. 2:12]--namely, to make up the breach between God and your soul (Rev. 2:21).

A good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.

Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.

for he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate replied, that as he had long taught others to save their souls, he should only think now of his own salvation. The worthy prelate heard his fiery sentence without emotion, walked cheerfully to the place of execution, and underwent his martyrdom with great fortitude.

Polycarp answered, Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never once wronged me; how then shall I blaspheme my King, Who hath saved me?

To which the father replied, a good christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

The purpose of Jesus is not only to save men from their sins, but by the grace of God to begin in the souls of men that marvelous development in the nature and mind and understanding of God our Father, until by the grace of God we are able to take our place and our part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and bear our share of responsibility.

We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.

you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

All three meanings [of faith] are implicit in the expression "faith in Jesus Christ," which implies believing he exists and is the son of God, trusting in him and his atonement, and being loyal to him by keeping the covenants we have made with him and that bind us to him.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.