Quotes About Salvation

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

The Bible makes it really clear that if I am not receptive to the grace of God I am headed toward wrath.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.