Salvation Quotes - Page 36

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

  John Calvin

  Christ, Application, Intercession

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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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• 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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• There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Levels, Lifts

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.262, Penguin

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• The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

  John Keats

  Men, Law, Work Out

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.226, e-artnow

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• The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

  Henry Blackaby

  Self, Essence, Centeredness

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• The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Book, Christ

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• Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

  N. T. Wright

  Religious, Jesus, Way

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• The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Fall, Grace, Together

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• Every year everything
  I have ever learned
  in my lifetime
  leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
  is salvation

  Mary Oliver

  Loss, Fire, Years

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Grace, Suffering

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• Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

  Martin E. Marty

  Christian, Order, Trying

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• I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

  Roger Sherman

  Father, Believe, Son

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• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  Zane Grey

  Mood

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• Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Appreciate, Christ

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  World, Want, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.159, New World Library

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• Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, World, Christ

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• Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mystery, Christ

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