Quotes about Salvation
I cannot think of any Christian person, family, church, ministry, or tribe that would not benefit from more Jesus!
— Mark Driscoll
Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.
— Mark Driscoll
we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out.
— Mark Driscoll
we want non-Christians to understand the essentials of our faith so that whether they receive or reject Jesus
— Mark Driscoll
the Bible as God's perfect and authoritative Word one God in three persons (Trinity) human sinfulness by nature and by choice Jesus as fully God and fully man who lived without sin, died in our place for our sins, and rose from the dead salvation bestowed by the grace of God when a sinner turns from sin and trusts in Jesus alone through faith new birth through the Holy Spirit eternal heaven for believers and eternal hell for unbelievers
— Mark Driscoll
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.
— Mark Driscoll
If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
And this is the simple truth--that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!
— Soren Kierkegaard
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.
— Martin Luther
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear; It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
— John Newton