Quotes about Salvation

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

The gospel is not just the "ABCs" but the "A-to-Z" of the Christian life.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Most of the prophecies explicitly or implicitly incorporate some hope for the nations—for instance, by escaping judgment or finding mercy after judgment.

Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.

For he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate replied, that as he had long taught others to save their souls, he should only think now of his own salvation. The worthy prelate heard his fiery sentence without emotion, walked cheerfully to the place of execution, and underwent his martyrdom with great fortitude.

Polycarp answered, Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never once wronged me; how then shall I blaspheme my King, Who hath saved me?

To which the father replied, a good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.