Quotes About Salvation

By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Our God is not moved by the deeds that we trophy, but by the desperation that we acknowledge as our own.

God will honor prayer truly offered in Jesus' name.

prayer." Praying in Jesus' name is automatically a confession of our unworthiness and a proclamation of his worthiness.

We must remember that our justification (being okay with God) and applied sanctification (being a pure child of God) are never determined by what we do but, rather, by faith in what Christ has done. God expects personal works of holiness as a loving response to his grace, but not as a way of gaining it. If we had to earn grace at any time in our Christian lives, it would not be grace.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

When God removes good works as a condition for his acceptance, he does not remove righteousness as a requirement for life.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

Repentance is not a turning from one category of works to another; rather it is a turning from human works entirely to God.

Jesus had many lovers of the kingdom of heaven but precious few bearers of his cross. Father Barry read on: … Interrogate

My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.

here. Salvation consists in the possibility, given by God and realized by Christ, that justice is victorious in love and love in justice. And

Fe puede (y debe) como tal ser llamada obediencia. Sin embargo como el evangelio no viene al hombre como comunicación u oferta que lo deja libre de actuar, sino que pide una decisión y un acto en el camino de la salvación ordenado por Dios y a abandonar cualquier otro medio de salvación aparte del que se le ha predicado en el evangelio.

Man is justified not on the ground of what he is himself or has or achieves, but precisely on the ground of that which he does not possess and which he in himself does not have at his disposal, but which he must receive, obtain, by faith. Faith here stands over against works as that which is absolutely receptive and dependent,48 over against that which is productive, which is able to assert itself. The

Faith can (and must!) as such be called obedience, however, because the gospel does not come to man as a communication or offer that leaves him free, but asks of him the decision and the act to enter into that way of salvation ordained of God and to abandon every other means of salvation than that which is proclaimed to him in the gospel.

The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than the re-creation of heaven and earth.

Faith does not justify because of that which it is in itself, but because of that to which it is directed, in which it rests.

The gospel is a power of God unto salvation, because therein the righteousness of God is revealed (Rom. 1: 16ft).

the object of God's justification, from whatever viewpoint one chooses to regard it, is not the righteous, but the ungodly.

De los que sienten este temor, son más los que se salvan que los que mueren; los que huyen, ni alcanzan gloria, ni entre sí se ayudan.

And as when the land appears welcome to men who are swimming, after Poseidon has smashed their strong-built ship on the open 235 water, pounding it with the weight of wind and the heavy seas, and only a few escape the gray water landward by swimming, with a thick scurf of salt coated upon them, and gladly they set foot on the shore, escaping the evil; so welcome was her husband to her as she looked upon him, 240 and she could not let him go from the embrace of her white arms.