Quotes about Salvation
It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.
— Tim LaHaye
The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
— Gordon Hinckley
'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.
— John Ortberg
If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.
— Norman Geisler
A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.
— Norman Geisler
Justification is the act of declaring a sinner righteous in the eyes of God.
— Norman Geisler
Jesus in Every Section of the Bible
— Norman Geisler
It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can't force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.
— Norman Geisler
Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.
— Norman Geisler
Since God by His very nature (love) cannot force anyone to love Him, it would be highly improper to think of a heaven where people were forced to be there.
— Norman Geisler
The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
— Viktor E. Frankl