Quotes About Salvation

Genuine sanctification has a 'continued orientation toward justification.

The purpose of the God-breathed Scripture is not at all to provide a scientific gnosis in order to convey and increase human knowledge and wisdom, but to witness of the salvation of God unto faith.

The purpose of the God-breathed Scripture is not at all to provide a scientific gnosis in order to convey and increase human knowledge and wisdom, but to witness of the salvation of God unto faith. This approach does not mean to separate faith and knowledge. But the knowledge that is the unmistakable aim of Scripture is the knowledge of faith, which does not increase human wisdom, but is life eternal.

God ... is hidden from corrupt eyes, from the proud and disdainful, but revealed to those who in confession of sin and receptive faith are open to His grace. Salvation is preached in Christ: it is not necessary for one to travel a long way to overcome its hiddenness: he should simply accept this gift in faith.

Myth is that which "diminishes the truth of salvation

Over and over the question addressed to Jesus arises in the history of the church: 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' Jesus' answer seems so non-committal, so evasive: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Luke 13:23f.). But this evasiveness is only apparent. This is the answer to this question. As long as we see only in a mirror, in riddles, many questions will remain unanswered, But this question has been answered, once for all time.

The history of salvation does away with any personal glory ... in Christ, we have the exclusion of all human merit.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God

Cehenneme gelince, elbette var olmad???n? söylemiyordum ama ?eytana verilecek en büyük cezan?n, Tanr?'n?n içeri kimseyi göndermemesi oldu?una kendimi inand?rmaya çal???yordum.

In the life of the believer there is pain, because it is the way of the Cross that saves us, but there is no

The devil is nothing against the mercy of God.

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.

Love is the test. In the gospel of Jesus, love is everything.

As one Victorian minister put it in 1868, "It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

if you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.

Finding fulfillment in God is the most powerful antidote to any sin.

Christianity doesn't make much sense without the reality of heaven.

becoming fixated on something you can't now undo. That's what forgiveness and grace are for — a fresh start, a new beginning. God offers grace precisely for the reason that he wants to forgive us. He is eager to forgive us so we can start afresh and live a new meaningful life in service to him from this point on.

It is this strict side of the ascetic's life that is perhaps the least understood, not only by our culture, but also by other Christians. Especially among evangelicals, who champion salvation by grace through faith, a strict faith can seem perilously close to legalism; and in some cases, it might be. For healthy ascetics, however, strictness is a cherished method of expressing love for God.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. Yahweh is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my god, and I will praise him, my father's god, and I will exalt him. Then Rahab turned back and faced Caleb again, and recited, Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name.

Edna more willingly believed in Elohim's beneficence. When the river had returned to its natural southward current, she wondered how many other miracles they would take for granted with such lack of gratitude. The provision of food to fill their bellies? More salvation from the enemy's mace? The devoted love of a man with a woman? The conception of a new human life? The birth of a child? It seemed everything kept pointing back to Methuselah in her heart.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.