Quotes About Salvation

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

There's no repentance in the grave.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near.

Frederick Buechner writes, "Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

God. Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more —no amount of spiritual calisthenics and renunciations, no amount of knowledge gained from seminaries and divinity schools, no amount of crusading on behalf of righteous causes. And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less —no amount of racism or pride or pornography or adultery or even murder. Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

Grace is shockingly personal. As Henri Nouwen points out, 'God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.

In my lifelong study of the Bible I have looked for an overarching theme, a summary statement of what the whole sprawling book is about. I have settled on this: "God gets his family back." From the first book to the last the Bible tells of wayward children and the tortuous lengths to which God will go to bring them home. Indeed, the entire biblical drama ends with a huge family reunion in the book of Revelation.

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.

Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?

According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.

Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.