Quotes about Salvation
Faith is not saving faith if it tries to trust Christ for the wrong things. So this makes clear that trust per se, without reference to what we trust him for, is not the essence of a saving relationship to Christ.
- John Piper
I will give them a heart to know that I am The Lord." Jeremiah 24:7 He gives it at new birth, then again and again.
- John Piper
It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.
- John Piper
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
- John Piper
Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.
- John Piper
The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.
- John Piper
The bloodline of Jesus Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. The death and resurrection of the Son of God for sinners is the only sufficient power to bring the bloodlines of race into the single bloodline of the cross.
- John Piper
Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he bought. Don't put it on the shelf unopened. And don't open it and then make it a means to all your other pleasures. Open it and enjoy the gift. Rejoice in him. Make him your pleasure. Make him your treasure.
- John Piper
You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
- John Piper
The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.
- John Piper
The all-glorious Christ is both the means and the goal of our salvation from blindness.
- John Piper
Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God He is if he were constrained by anything outside Himself.
- John Piper