Salvation Quotes - Page 24

• The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Fellowship, Christ, Evidence

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• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  Saint Augustine

  Firsts, Would Be, Flesh

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• God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Blood

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Fall, Aggravation, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

  Nicole Kidman

  Creativity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 19, 2017

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• Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Memorable, Men

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• Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Writing, Order, Paper

  "My hopes of computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. April 1979.

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• Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

  Thomas S. Power

  Mistake, Lying, Lessons

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• All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Dirty, Broken, Heaven

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• In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Wilderness

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• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  Donald Cargill

  Believe, Peace With God, Sin

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• The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.

  Jerry Bridges

  Law, Discipline, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ”, p.29, Tyndale House

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• Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

  Oswald Chambers

  Commitment, Mean, Being Free

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Patience, Years, Infidelity

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• Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Application, Intercession

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• If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.316, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Christian, Mean, Heart

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• Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Mean, People

  Martin Luther (1987). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.356, Kregel Publications

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• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  Oswald Chambers

  Cost

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.148, Discovery House

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• I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life Changing, Love Is, Self

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• To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Deceit, Instinct

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• Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Christ, Our Relationship

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• Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

  Adrian Rogers

  Lines, Littles, Cafeteria

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• Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

  David Platt

  Heart, Wrestling, Grace

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