Quotes About Salvation

Faith, therefore, is a liberation that is also an incorporation, specifically an incorporation into Christ the new lord, and into his body.

for Paul private belief and public confession of it - including baptism - go hand in hand.3 Both are needed for salvation.

Holiness is not a supplement to justification but the actualization of justification,

By salvation I mean, not barely (according to the vulgar notion) deliverance from hell, or going to heaven, but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of the divine nature; the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy, and truth.29

Lamb Christology is inseparable from ethics. Paradoxically, the slaughtered Lamb reveals God and also reveals what it means to be faithful to God. It reveals how God saves humanity and how humanity in turn can serve God.

For Calvin and the Puritans, "everyone was equally base in the sight of God." Since no one was deserving, salvation had to depend on God's grace.

Before hardness of heart sets in from experiencing the hurts of this life, vulnerable children can learn to trust the message of hope and salvation that is found in the gospel.

Then why aren't the crowds knocking down our doors for the bread of life? (It may be happening in other parts of the world, but it is certainly not the norm in the United States.) Why aren't they flocking to us for the only real antidote? It's because we don't have the goods! On top of that, we haven't convinced the world that it is sick, starving, and on the verge of eternal death.

Simply stated, there is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible that pronounces us already forgiven for our future sins (meaning, sins we have not yet committed). Not one verse. Nowhere. Not even a hint of such a concept.

It's clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with the Father.

The hyper-grace teachers are simply wrong when they claim that all our future sins are forgiven the moment we are saved.

Let him who has done this be removed from among you" (1 Cor. 5:1–2). He even ordered that the offending, unrepentant brother be delivered "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord" (v. 5).

But if the threat to philosophy and thought in general was radical, could there still be hope for the future? Could one go on after Auschwitz without capitulating wholly to its evil, to its negativity, to its destruction of our categories and principles? For Jews, what could remain of the ideas of salvation and redemption? Did integrity require complete despair?

De mens bepaalde door eigen doen en laten of zijn ziel gered dan wel verdoend werd. Waarmee God, in al Zijn alwetendheid en almacht, in feite in Zijn hemd kwam te staan.

without struggle there can be no triumph, without suffering there can be no happiness, and without sacrifice there can be no salvation.

To misunderstand salvation is to fail to understand fully who the Savior is.

A common caricature of Catholic teaching is that it rejects the notion of salvation by grace and affirms instead that salvation is simply by works. Nothing could be further from the truth.

God wants us to be forgiven more than we ourselves want to be forgiven.

They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved

Polycarp replied, "For eighty-six years I have been his servant, and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?

Christian growth is simply accepting what we have always been from the first day we accepted Christ. The

There is nothing that the nearness of Jesus will not cure.

The Christian message is not an inclusive message that embraces all religions; it's not a message that there are many paths to the same place. The Christian message is summed up in the brave words of Peter before the Sanhedrin: "Jesus is 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:11–12).

The truth that sets us free is this: Jesus is the one and only way to everlasting life.