Justification By Faith Quotes

• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

  J. I. Packer

  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

  Martin Luther

  People, Forget, Week

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• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  R. C. Sproul

  America, United States, Doctrine

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• Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Receiving, Saving

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• Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

  John Calvin

  Justification, True Religion, Turns

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• Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

  Charles Simeon

  Christianity, Justification, Turns

  Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians”, p.13

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• We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Saved

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• The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

  Paul Washer

  Ongoing, Spirit, Holy

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• It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

  Adolph Saphir

  Believe, Justified, Justification

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• Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

  Shai Linne

  Keys, Racism, Justification

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• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  Neil T Anderson

  Transformation, Progressive, Moments

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

  Pope Clement I

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

  Thomas Huxley

  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Cheating, Justice

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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