Quotes About Salvation

We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.

You realize that Christ didn't die for you because you had good qualities that were worth saving. He died for you because you had bad qualities that left you without a prayer.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

When I say my prayers I have a terrible doubt. How can I be sure God is forgiving me? What if he will forgive me, but hasn't forgiven me yet? That's why I don't want to die, Sir. That's why I can't die. Not until I am sure. Are you sure?

justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.

Here we find a parallel to Luther's disdain of reason. In its legitimate sphere reason is the highest gift of God, but the moment it transgresses into theology it becomes the "Devil's Whore." So, too, with free will. Understood as the God-given capacity to make ordinary decisions, to carry out one's responsibilities in the world, free will remains intact. What it cannot do is effect its own salvation.