Quotes About Salvation

Christianity also teaches that, amazingly, God himself entered into the human condition and experienced suffering and death by execution on a Roman cross. In doing so, God inverted death into a means of achieving new life. "By his wounds we are healed" (Isa. 53:5).

In their original historical context, these verses were astonishing. In the ancient world, virtually all the major "isms"—Platonism, neo-Platonism, Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Hindu pantheism—taught a low view of the material world. In these philosophies, salvation was conceived as a complete break between matter and spirit, a flight from the physical world. To make that break, adherents adopted a regimen of asceticism to suppress bodily urges and desires.

She thinks to herself, If I was saved, there must be a reason.

God loves all of us," she says, "and She wants us to know that She has changed Her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten. Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatima, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

God loves all of us,' she says, 'and She wants us to know that She has changed her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten: Jews, look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses ... Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

But it is not theology that saves us. Jesus holds that place. Our theology continues to be the way we express our best thoughts about Jesus but Jesus is not bound by our words. He always transcends them. He lives beyond them, in a realm of meaning we can hardly comprehend. So we use these units of thought that we call words to explain, describe, and try to capture the mystery of Jesus. However, our words fail us—and they always will.

Oh, Lord, we are not of those who wash in wine, water, urine, vinegar, fire, oil, bay rum, milk, brandy, or boric acid. Oh, Lord, we are of those who wash solely in the Blood of the Lamb.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

Only those who thus continue in their conversion truly know God. For they know their sin. Though they are confronted by the wrath of God, at the same time they discern the greatness and superior strength of God's love. They never cease to acknowledge their sin, in order in that way to proclaim God's mercy. Andre Louf

Jesus is the very heart of the Father revealed.

God sees only the righteousness of Jesus when He looks at me because all my shame, pain, and blame were taken by Jesus, and I was given His goodness in exchange.

Church begins with Jesus: who He is and what He has done. It is all about Jesus, and if it begins to be about something else, then it stops being the church as Jesus meant it to be.

Confessing your sin will not diminish His love but will actually tap into His abundant grace for your life.

the most significant consequence of Adam's and Eve's sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh. To restore what was lost, God had to become our Redeemer and Savior. Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between God and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap. Yahweh had to do that Himself.

understanding grace is crucial in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah.

All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.

There are many ways to go wrong, but only one path leads back to God. There

Jesus did not come just to forgive our sins and give us life; He came to undo the works of Satan (see 1 John 3:8).

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more - and grace also means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less.

Leave all and follow me." In the face of seemingly mountainous obstacles claim your freedom. The consciousness of freedom is the Father of freedom. It has a way of expressing itself which no man knows. "Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourself, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.

He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all." (Romans 11:32, RSV)