Quotes about Salvation
Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5)
- Thomas a Kempis
Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.
- Thomas Adams
To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
that after a long time, and with the admixture of many errors. Whereas man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this truth. Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.
- St. Thomas Aquinas