Quotes About Salvation

Entry into the kingdom of God is not a casual affair. It involves a radical confrontation with God, and it seems impossible that it could happen without a profound self-examination and a penetrating self-knowledge.

Grace does not, however, operate in a vacuum. God is free to work as and how he pleases, yet he has covenanted to work generally and regularly through certain means.

Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. . . .

I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love, the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

To be damned by the devil is to be truly blessed.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

Elizabeth, it comes down to this: Jesus shed His blood on the cross. He died for you, even when you did not deserve it. And He rose from the grave and offers forgiveness and salvation for anyone who turns to Him. But the Bible also says that we can't ask Him to forgive us while refusing to forgive others.

As he had all his life, Jack found refuge from his health worries in the power of words and ideas. Reading remained his salvation, and not just the daily newspapers that are the daily fare of most politicians. p108

Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth...For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise.

We are not saying that final salvation is unconditional. It is not. We must meet the condition of faith, for example, in Christ in order to inherit eternal life. But faith is not a condition for election. Just the reverse. Election is a condition for faith. It is because God chose us before the foundation of the world that he purchases our redemption at the cross, and then gives us spiritual life through irresistible grace, and brings us to faith.

To put it bluntly, it is not the words of the Bible that are 'the way, the truth, and the life.' It is the person of Christ, to whom the Bible witnesses."[168]

To be evangelical, then, means having one's life centered on the terrifically good message that God is reconciling the world to himself in Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:17–19).

The path to the goal is portrayed in our fairy tales. We hear the ceaseless messages of the necessity of us being endlessly giving, beautiful, and selfless if we wish to find the fulfillment of our dreams, salvation. We learn through the absorption of our myths that desirability is synonymous with worthiness and goodness synonymous with acceptability.

Our lives are enriched by generosity, forgiveness, and magnanimity. It is only when the cultivation of these virtues is motivated by the dream of salvation by someone else that these virtues become problematic.

A pair of peasants must be saved even if we build an ark.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord GOD, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?

Hay mucha gente para quien la cultura es la cosa más seria, el medio que ilumina el alma y constituye la salvación; algo con lo que no se debe jugar. Pero la cultura y el arte son las primeras víctimas de esa ilusión, pues pone sobre ellos una carga que no puede llevar.

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)