Quotes about Salvation
Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough to live forever and never see the grave.
— Greg Laurie
God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!
— Gregory Boyd
No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.
— Gregory Dickow
Christianity is not a religion. it is a relationship with God.
— Gregory Dickow
He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our nature might by this transfusion of the Divine become itself divine, rescued as it was from death, and put beyond the reach of the caprice of the antagonist.
— Gregory of Nyssa
By whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.
— Gregory of Nyssa
The unqualified affirmation of the universal will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world... The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
Hell is not just a place of torment; additionally it's a place of separation from God.
— James Garlow
Hell wasn't made for people; God doesn't want anyone to go there. But he is utter goodness—absolute holiness—and evil cannot be in his presence.
— James Garlow
In language that's hard for us to hear, Jesus says those a lineated from God will go " into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
— James Garlow
The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view... that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22
— James Montgomery Boice
Religion is your seeking after a god in your own image. Christianity is God's seeking you and moving to redeem you by the death of His Son.
— James Montgomery Boice