Quotes About Salvation

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Perhaps, however, it will help us to remind ourselves that salvation is more importantly about what we are saved to (renewed access to the presence of God and relationship with him) than what we are saved from. This point is significant because too many Christians find it too easy to think only that they are saved, forgiven and on their way to heaven instead of taking seriously the idea that we are to be in deepening relationship with God day by day here and now.

I suggest that we must be defined not by our salvation but by our faith. The "Lordship Salvation" debate is frustrating because sometimes proponents on both sides make it sound as if "salvation" is the reason for our faith.43 That cannot be right. Salvation is a benefit of our faith gained by the grace of God; God is the reason for our faith.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, / Nor have entered into the heart of man / The things which God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9).

Looking back, all he could see was a swirling pillar of ash and bones behind him. But ahead, there was someone standing on the surface of the water! Suddenly, a strong hand plunged through the watery roiling veil and held his arm fast. It jerked, and Dietrich shuddered. The hand lifted him straight up--into the warmth, into the light. "This is the end--for me the beginning of life.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: "only one who practices grace can receive grace.

Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

En Juan 17:3, en Su oración al Padre, Jesús dice: "Y esta es la vida eterna: que te conozcan a Ti, el único Dios verdadero, y a Jesucristo, a quien has enviado".

O come, O come, Emmanuel,And ransom captive Israel.

Christians have not always been good stewards of the message of salvation in Christ. Religious persecution, injustice, and wars have all been committed in His name. We should not partake in that spirit. When our responsibility is rightly understood, we will practice it now, and we will spend eternity studying this mystery of love.

Beware of the national elections, my black brothers and sisters. There is no salvation in them for you—only false promises. The only salvation for you and me now is in unity and being under the guidance of Allah through His Messenger and His program for us all.

Though they had a chance. God forgives them if they would leave the devil and come to Him and go back to the people. They are not guilty of the devil's sins and He has declared them to be free of the devil's sins.

The world of books is still the world, I write, And both worlds have God's providence, thank God, To keep and hearten: with some struggle, indeed, Among the breakers, some hard swimming through The deeps - I lost breath in my soul sometimes And cried, "God save me if there's any God," But even so, God saved me; and, being dashed From error on to error, every turn Still brought me nearer to the central truth.

I've always wanted to save people. Maybe because nobody saved me.

Delicious to know you could have him. Delicious to know that you could save him.

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk about Jesus.' Amy could not say yes to that. She explained that the Gospel needed no such frills. It is the power of God for salvation....There was no need for tricks which might open houses...

there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.