Quotes about Salvation

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.

There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Mercy, GOD, mercy!": the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ.

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.