Quotes about Salvation

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Never a choice. Always being rescued.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.

we are not received by Jesus into a school of ethics but into a kingdom of redemption.

there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication.

Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.

You either stand for Jesus or you stand for all that He died to repudiate.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.