Quotes About Salvation

For works do not drive out sin, but driving out of sin produces good works.

It follows further that the forgiveness of guilt is not within the province of any human office or authority, be it pope, bishop, priest, or any other. Rather, it depends exclusively upon the word of Christ and your own faith. For Christ did not intend to base our comfort, our salvation, our confidence on human words or deeds but only upon himself, upon his words and deeds.

all the works of the believer are alive and all the works of the unbeliever are dead, evil, and damnable,

It is certain that one must utterly despair of oneself in order to be made fit to receive the grace of Christ.

That person is not righteous who does many works but who, without works, believes much in Christ.

Terror" or "fright" (erschrecken) work first to destroy a person's self-centered claims before God, characterized by boasting in works and merits.

There is no greater sin than not to believe this article of "the forgiveness of sins" which we pray daily in the [Apostles'] Creed. And this sin is called the sin against the Holy Spirit.

You see, then, that the whole church is filled with the forgiveness of sins. But there are few who really receive and welcome it.o For they do not believe it and would rather rely upon their own works.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.

Legalism is not just a reduction of the gospel, it is another gospel altogether (see Galatians), where salvation is earned by keeping the rules we have established.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

If Christ is indeed the only prize worth living for, we need to ponder just how wonderful he is.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Savior

You have to want to save someone in order to be saved.

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.