Quotes About Salvation

an unconverted, unrepentant person would not be happy if he got to heaven without a heart changed by the Holy Spirit. He would be a creature out of his proper element. He would have no ability to enjoy his holy abode. Without a repentant heart, he is not suitable for the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12). We must repent if we want to go to heaven.

Think for a moment how much is involved in those few words, "none of His." You are not washed in Christ's blood! You are not clothed in His righteousness! You are not justified! You are not interceded for! Your sins are yet upon you! The devil claims you for his own! The pit opens her mouth for you! The torments of hell wait for you!

We are all fast travelling toward a place where names and forms and Church-government will be nothing, and Christ will be all Let us get ready for that place betimes, by loving all who are in the way that leads to it.

High or low, rich or poor, gentle or simple, we all need a complete change,—a change which it is the special office of the Holy Ghost to give us. Call it what you please,—new birth, regeneration, renewal, new creation, quickening, repentance,—the thing must be had if we are to be saved: and if we have the thing it will be seen.

Es absolutamente bíblico y correcto decir que "solo la fe justifica". Pero no es bíblico ni correcto decir "sólo la fe santifica". La

We may depend upon it, men will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus, unless they really know why they are to come and what is their need. Those whom the Spirit draws to Jesus are those whom the Spirit has convinced of sin. Without thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

la elección de la salvación del hombre es la obra especial de Dios, el Padre, que la expiación, mediación e intercesión, son la obra especial de Dios, el Hijo y que la santificación es la obra especial de Dios, el Espíritu Santo.

The cross is the grand peculiarity of the Christian religion. Other religions have laws and moral precepts, forms and ceremonies, rewards and punishments. But other religions cannot tell us of a dying Savior. They cannot show us the cross. This is the crown and glory of the gospel. This is that special comfort that belongs to it alone.

I can find that nobody will be saved by his prayers, but I cannot find that without prayer anybody will be saved.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven. It is to be on the road to hell. Now can you wonder that I ask the question, Do you pray?

Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy? Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back. Eve: You're not going to hell. Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that? Eve: You married a cop...you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. His salvation was that he lived in denial.

While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God—the direct availability of God himself and His rule—is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus.

Entendí que debemos mentirnos a nosotros mismos de vez en cuando, decirnos a nosotros mismos que somos capaces y fuertes, que la vida es buena y que el trabajo trae recompensas, y que después debemos intentar que nuestras mentiras se hagan realidad. Ésa es nuestra misión, nuestra salvación.

Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.

In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. -Isaiah 63:9

The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

The gospel that Paul is proclaiming in Romans does not center on the issue of sexuality. It focuses on the universality of sin and the free grace of salvation through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is the essence of the Christian message. Idolatry, Not Sexuality

Sí, los Fundadores nos salvaron del país podrido y pusieron orden —continúa Pascual—. Pero ¿quién nos salva de sus descendientes? ¡Ahora somos sus esclavos!

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.

It is only when we see just how wonderful and amazing man is that we can appreciate the magnitude of the Fall and the greatness of redemption.

Man's contribution, then, lies in the fact that man is able to cry out, "Christ, save me!" Man's freedom is summed up in the entreaty, "Accepting that all is grace, I ask you for grace." This is how we completely take into account both the fact that all is grace and the fact that, for its effect, Christ's grace depends on my freedom, too.

Prima di tutto la paura, che nasce dal non capire che Cristo ha già vinto: siamo già dalla parte del vincitore! Quindi, è un tradimento della propria fede la paura: «Non abbiate paura, io ho vinto il mondo».

Non è una «cosa» la grazia, la grazia è una presenza;