Quotes About Salvation

Cuantos hablan de mí no me conocen', decía a lo largo de sus diez líneas cortas (pero eran prosa), 'y al hablar me calumnian; los que me conocen callan, y al callar no me defienden; así, todos me maldicen hasta que me encuentran, mas al encontrarme descansan, y a mí me salvan, aunque yo nunca descanso.

Salvation is represented here as the response to a Call coming from below, like an awakening out of deep sleep...

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

The end of human creatures is union with God; and in this their happiness consists.

Despite everything he's been through, or maybe also because of it, her boy has weighed the call of his conscience above the call of his own salvation.

This is why we are not Manicheans: the same God who has created the world also saves it.

Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32).

Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse, Mirror of a Lost Soul.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

This tells us our redemption is older than creation itself, and that God's loving heart and will to save us traces to eternity past.54 That's how long God has loved you.

The freedom to fail is preserved, as a sort of supreme law, which guarantees escape at every fresh juncture. One is inclined to call this the freedom of the weak person who seeks salvation in defeat. His true uniqueness, his special relation to power, is expressed in the prohibition of victory. All calculations originate and end in impotence.

Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude?

Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk about Jesus.' Amy could not say yes to that. She explained that the Gospel needed no such frills. It is the power of God for salvation....There was no need for tricks which might open houses...

It's only in the cross that we can begin to harmonize this seeming contradiction between suffering and love.

There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.

There is no hope for any of us until we confess our helplessness . Then we are in a position to receive grace

As we have a high old time this Christmas, may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha. May God give us a new vision of His will concerning the lost and our responsibility.

Together we began having meetings for the Indians, telling them in their own language the most wonderful story in the world, that of the Son of God who had come to earth and paid the price of man's sin with his own blood. The recognition of God's great love dawned slowly in the Indian mind. But one day we rejoiced as Atanasio said to Jim, "I am very old. Perhaps too old to understand well. But it seems to me your words are true. I will die in your words.

He Himself has been praying for me all along: "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Heb. 7:25, NIV).

Ó Cristo, ele é a fonte, doce e profundo manancial de amor...

Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.