Quotes About Salvation

When we see salvation whole, its every single part is found in Christ, And so we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else.

Before all time; prior to all worlds; when there was nothing outside of God Himself; when the Father, Son, and Spirit found eternal, absolute, and unimaginable blessing, pleasure, and joy in Their holy triunity-it was Their agreed purpose to create a world. That world would fall. But in unison-and at infinitely great cost-this glorious triune God planned to bring you (if you are a believer) grace and salvation.

To express it in the bold words of Professor Murray: 'sin may be said to have ruled over him [Christ]'. But he broke its dominion, and because we are united to him he has thereby broken its dominion over us.

In Christ we are no longer dominated by the flesh, but by the Spirit; but we are not yet delivered from the flesh. So long as this eschatological tension exists for the believer, so long will there be—in Calvin's view—a gap between the definition of faith and the actual experience of the believer:

The offer of the gospel is to be made not to the righteous or even the repentant, but to all. There are no conditions that need to be met in order for the gospel offer to be made.

Repentance is suffused with faith; otherwise it is legal. But then without repentance, faith would be no more than imagination.

At the end of the day we cannot divide faith and repentance chronologically. The true Christian believes penitently, and he repents believingly.

To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey.

Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.

salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ.

By way of contrast he wanted to stress that the gospel's center is found in Jesus Christ himself, who has been crucified for sin and raised for justification, with the inbuilt implication that Christ himself thus defined and described should be proclaimed as able to save all who come to him.

You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19

This is the key to the enjoyment of assurance precisely because assurance is our assurance that he is a great Savior and that he is ours.

If the benefits of Christ's work (justification, reconciliation, adoption, and so on) are abstracted from Christ himself, and the proclamation of the gospel is made in terms of what it offers rather than in terms of Christ himself, the question naturally arises: To whom can I offer these benefits?

Our faith and works are merely reflections of the salvation we have received, not a contributing factor to it.

Jesus did not come to add to our comforts. He did not come to help those who were already helping themselves or to fill life with more pleasant experiences. He came on a deliverance mission, to save sinners, and to do so He had to destroy the works of the Devil (Matt. 1:21; 1 John 3:8b).

En consecuencia, la gracia, no la ley, produce lo que la ley exige; pero al mismo tiempo, la ley exige lo que la gracia produce.

Te ruego que consideres que Dios el Padre, al ser movido en Su Hijo Jesucristo únicamente por Su amor gratuito hacia la humanidad perdida, ha efectuado un acta de donación a todos ellos, para que todo aquel que cree en este Su Hijo, no perezca, sino que tenga vida eterna.3

Y por esta razón, Jesucristo mismo dijo a Sus discípulos en Marcos 16:15: "Vayan por todo el mundo y anuncien las buenas nuevas a toda criatura"; es decir, ¡vayan y díganle a cada hombre, sin excepción, que hay buenas noticias para él! ¡Cristo murió por él! Y que si está dispuesto a recibirlo y a aceptar Su justicia, Cristo será suyo.

Lieber Gott, falls es einen Gott gibt, rette meine Seele, falls ich eine Seele habe.

Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.

Death the deliverer freeth all at last.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

And this is the simple truth--that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.