Quotes About Salvation

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

Christianity gutted of Christ is devoid of both its beauty and its power.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

Because I had been given another gift: the knowledge of a ready, willing, and capable Savior. I had been blessed with the awareness of his offer of forgiveness to all who confess their sin and by faith seek his forgiveness.

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.

Jonah being delivered from the whale.

God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

Salvation understood as a revelation of our being in Christ or of our Buddha-nature is not just a wonderful revealing of what we are; it can also be a jolting kick in the pants, a transforming corrective to what we thought we were.

if a Christian no longer places Jesus Christ at the heart of what God is up to in all of history, she's no longer really a Christian.

within all the religions there is a concern to improve the lot of human beings in this world, which means improving this world. Whatever "salvation" or "enlightenment" or moksha may mean for the interior life of the soul or for life after death, it also is meant to make a difference in life on this earth.

Salvation, therefore, is not a transaction that takes place outside us, but rather an empowering awareness that explodes within and then pervades our entire being.

But if salvation is a matter of revealing or embodying the deepest and already existing truth about ourselves and the world – in Christian vocabulary, that we are already children of the Divine called to wake up to and live our oneness with the Spirit – then it is indeed possible that there be other teachers and revealers who have seen and taught other aspects of the Mystery of who we are.

To believe in Jesus as the Christ means at its deepest to confess…that Jesus has an abiding and constitutive significance for the approach of the Kingdom of God and thus for the comprehensive healing of human beings…. For Christians, Jesus therefore is the decisive and definitive revelation of God."26

Some men live free in this life, only to face an eternal prison in hell. You're in prison in this life, but from today your names have been written in heaven and you are free!

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Luke is the only Gospel to share Jesus' stories ("parables") of the good Samaritan (10:25–37), the prodigal son (15:11–32), and the rich man and Lazarus (16:19–31). Luke is also the only Gospel to detail Jesus' actual birth and words He spoke in childhood (both in Chapter 2). SO WHAT? It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, or what you've done—Jesus came to seek and to save you.

Israel goes through cycles of sin, suffering, and salvation.

Happy Easter to you, my friend! This day's light shall have no end. For Christ did rise In the golden morn And by His life are we reborn. Happy Easter to one and all! The night is over, the sun is tall. The day did break with a tiny beam And flooded life with Light supreme.

Salvation should be understood first and foremost as the appropriate relation of the human being, individually and collectively, to reality in its most comprehensive sense.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (Jn 10:10).

Is it really that easy? Is trusting in Jesus all that is required to enter into a relationship with God?" Indeed, it is.

Two ghosts, briefly rescued from oblivion; a small act of reclamation, a chance to make amends. -Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES