Quotes About Salvation

By his stripes you are healed.

Unos dicen que el peso la ha vuelto loca. Yo tengo fe en su demencia. Solo las pequeñas locuras pueden salvarnos de la gran locura.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Do we really need to take these kinds of verbal jabs at people? Does it make us more effective in our mission? Does it serve the purpose of drawing a non-Christian nearer to knowing the love of God and his gift of salvation?

sold for the price of a slave. And in a matter of hours they hoped he would die like a slave; on a cross. Clearly Jesus would die as a slave, nailed to the cross beam, but he would not die like a slave.

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

long for the day when I can go to Carmel to concern myself only with Him, to abase myself in Him and so to live His life alone: to love and suffer to save souls. Yes, I thirst for souls because I know that it is what my Jesus craves more than anything else. Oh, how I love Him!

In my faith we believe there is only one answer to the blows that evil inflicts on us. The answer is not a rational argument. The answer is a man. This man is God himself suffering with us, dying with us, so that he might draw us up to the Most High, confounding all the devices of the enemy.

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

We wish to be worthy of being saved", Father Andrei continued. "Which is another way of saying that we, every one of us, whether we know it or not, wish to be our own god, that is, to save ourselves. We want paradise without his Cross, forgetting that the Cross is the only way to reenter the original harmony we lost in the Fall of Man. This is the narrow gate.

God wants you to know that nothing you do will ever destroy His love for you. He has sent a man back from the dead to tell you this." "I do not understand." "We do not understand because we are small creatures. You and I. All of us. Very small. To hide in His arms, that is the best thing we ever do.

God wants everyone to be saved. Fostering a longing for the coming of Christ can only happen if we believe that it is for our good.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

I have also seen the sinner's prayer abused. Some conservative churches treat the prayer like a magical incantation that guarantees an individual's salvation.

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

God is gonna get ya

Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

As one American major said, in a successful attempt at attaining history, "We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it."