Quotes about Salvation

Of the poor, fainting soul, tired of looking to humanity only to be betrayed and forgotten, Christ says, "Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me" (Isaiah 27:5).

The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

When this young priest received my news with grace instead of anger, he reminded me that salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.