Quotes About Salvation

When I can read my title clearTo mansions in the skies,I'll bid farewell to every fear,And wipe my weeping eyes.

See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

The Spirit is sent down to breathe On such dry bones as we. 6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; And justify'd by grace We shall appear in glory too, And see our Father's face.

The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of this shaft, and he would go mad there drinking blood and eating human flesh, without ever being able to die. Up there, against the sky, there were good angels with ropes, and bad angels with grenades and rifles, and a big old man with a white beard who waved his arms but could not save him.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

There must be fidelity to a goal and purity of heart, values fundamental to salvation and triumph. There must also be beauty, a sign of grace that can be masked by the humble, ugly guise of a frog; and above all, there must be present the infinite possibilities of mutation, the unifying element in everything: men, beasts, plants, things.

Hai paura che le nostre anime caschino nelle mani del Diavolo? - avrebbero chiesto quelli della Città. - No: che non abbiate anima da dargli.

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light.

Whenever a church keeps back Christ crucified, or puts anything whatever in that foremost place which Christ crucified should always have, from that moment a church ceases to be useful.

El miembro más débil de la familia de Cristo tiene mucho más valor y es más preciado a los ojos de Dios que el hombre del mundo más prominente. El primero vive para Dios y vivirá para siempre; el otro, con toda su superioridad, sigue muerto en su pecado. ¡Tú

La señal de la sangre de Cristo es el único distintivo que puede salvarnos de la destrucción. Cuando los ángeles del cielo estén separando las ovejas de los cabritos en el día final, si no estamos marcados con la sangre de la expiación, más nos vale nunca haber nacido.

I want to know one thing,—the way to heaven—how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know—listen to me, now—don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?… Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.

It is not enough to know that Jesus is alive; it is not enough to know that a wonderful Person lived in the first century of the Christian era and that Person still lives, somewhere and somehow, today. Jesus lives, and that is well; but what good is it to us?

The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.

According to Christian belief, Jesus is our Saviour, not by virtue of what He said, not even by virtue of what He was, but by what He did. He is our Saviour, not because He has inspired us to live the same kind of life that He lived, but because He took upon Himself the dreadful guilt of our sins and bore it instead of us on the cross. Such is the Christian conception of the Cross of Christ.

A Shrunken Gospel We make the gospel too small by thinking it only "gets us saved," that it is a sort of fire insurance, without understanding that it has implications for all of life.

the gospel is not only a message of salvation but a way of life.

When we measure ourselves by the life of Jesus, who humbled Himself on the cross, we are overwhelmed with the shabbiness, even the vileness, of our hearts, and we cry: Boasting excluded, pride I abase; I'm only a sinner, saved by grace. James M. Gray Egotism

There is the striking chapter on "The Five Deaths of the Faith" near the end of The Everlasting Man, arguably Chesterton's masterpiece, in which he declares that "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

When Chesterton was asked why he became Catholic, he answered, "To get rid of my sins."8 He says that only the Catholic Church can do that, and that when a man steps out of the confessional, he is only five minutes old. His whole life has started over again.