Quotes about Salvation
Ye would not go to heaven but with company, and ye may perceive that the way of those who went before you was through blood, suffering, and many afflictions; nay, Christ, the Captain, went in over the door-threshold of paradise, bleeding to death . . . Christ hath borne the whole complete cross, and his saints bear but bits and chips; as the apostle saith, "the remnants of leavings of the cross.
— Samuel Rutherford
I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven's height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, that He may quicken them; and spin out and dig hells to themselves, that He may ransom them.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is no goodness in our will now, but what it hath from grace.
— Samuel Rutherford
Be content, ye are His wheat growing in our Lord's field. And if wheat, ye must go under our Lord's threshing instrument, in His barn-floor, and through His sieve, and through His mill to be bruised, as the Prince of your salvation, Jesus, was (Isa. 53:10), that ye may be found good bread in your Lord's house.
— Samuel Rutherford
Ye will not get leave to steal quietly to heaven, in Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross.
— Samuel Rutherford
He is not lost to you who is found to Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
No man getteth Christ with ill-will [on Christ's part]; no man cometh and is not welcome. No man cometh and rueth [regrets] his voyage. Letter 226
— Samuel Rutherford
Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.
— Samuel Rutherford
am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.
— Samuel Rutherford
Go on, and faint not, something of yours is in heaven, beside the flesh of your exalted Saviour, and ye go on after your own.
— Samuel Rutherford
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
— CS Lewis
It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
— Martin Luther