Quotes about Salvation
The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.
- Joseph Alleine
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
- Joseph Alleine
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
- Joseph Prince
Mercy, GOD, mercy!": the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ.
- Eugene Peterson
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
- Eugene Peterson
If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
- Eugene Peterson
Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.
- Eugene Peterson
That's the fullness of God's salvation. It's not only deliverance from something but also deliverance to something. He not only delivers us from sin, but he also delivers us into a land of salvation that's flowing with milk and honey.
- Eugene Peterson
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
- Eugene Peterson
They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.
- Eugene Peterson