Quotes About Salvation

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Once we see that our salvation has never depended on anything we do, we have nothing to fear and nothing to prove. God in Christ has already provided every proof we need to be acquitted of every charge against us.

By grace, God helps those who not only can't help themselves, they don't even want to. By grace, what goes around stops at the foot of the cross, never to come around again.

We are willing to "buy any recipe for salvation as long as it leaves the responsibility for

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

the gospel of grace can never be reduced to a doctrine that demands more human doing. The gospel of grace is a divine declaration that Jesus Christ has already secured all that's required to turn zombie corpses into chosen children. The only right response to such a glorious announcement is to discard every concern about what you must do, to cling desperately to what Christ has already done, and to call everyone around you to cling to Christ with you.

God's salvation is a gift. We were nothing but corpses on the run from God's reign. But God, in his grace, chased us down, overcame our resistance, and began to heal our sin-infected will. His grace gives us hearts of compassion, love for neighbors and friends, and it empowers us with boldness to share the message of redemption. God's grace is an overcoming grace.

What matters most in life isn't anything that you have done or can do. It's what God chooses to do for you through Jesus Christ.

After his train wreck of a life, he wasn't sure anything he did would be valued by God.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that has to do with salvation possesses, among other things, a sinister, unfamiliar character; it always includes the superhuman. It is a specifically human trait to find joy in destruction. —ADOLF GUGGENBUHL-CRAIG

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

There is no cancer, no sickness, no sin, no reversal of fortunes, no curse, no heartache - nothing - that's greater than Jesus. Jesus heals. Jesus restores. Jesus brings life.

Victory over our hurts and pain is not found by delving deeper into our wounds, but by clinging to the wounds of Jesus.

Father, thank You for hearing my cry from the pit. I receive Your grace today and stand on the solid ground of Your righteousness. Every time I think of how You rescued me, my mouth can't help but sing Your praise. I love You and am so grateful for You. Let my whole life sing Your song. Amen!

God has already torn down the biggest obstacle we will ever face, the veil of our sin that separated us from His holy embrace. He will, in the same way, lead you through every challenge you will ever face.

If you ask me, the church needs a whole lot more grace addicts because grace has a name, and the name is Jesus.

In spite of our foolishness and rebellious hearts, God has pursued us with relentless passion and patience, fully expressing to us His unfathomable love through the mercy and grace of the cross of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Whatever you need to come back from, I want you to hear this: if Jesus is alive from the dead—and he is—and if Jesus has conquered death and hell—and he has—then it's possible for every person to have a comeback story.

Guess what? Grace is more powerful than consequences. Grace overwhelms consequences. Even with consequences there is love and grace and the mercy of God in Christ. Jesus says to us, "I know you messed up, and I know there are consequences, but I want to walk with you through the consequences. I want to love you through the consequences. And I even want to use the consequences in this whole big story.

When we suffer, it's always for somebody's saving—that issue is always hanging in the balance. It's not all about me; it's all about Jesus becoming known in this broken world.