Quotes about Salvation

You have God- and all that he is for you in Jesus.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

When you see carnage and "random" horror, hear the voice of God: "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

What makes born-again people glad is not at bottom that they have God's gifts but that they have God.

For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.

The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

The good tidings of the preacher, the peace and salvation that he publishes, are boiled down into one sentence: "Your God reigns!" Cotton Mather applies this, with full justification, to the preacher: "The great design . . . of a Christian preacher [is] to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men.

The faith that honors Christ is the faith that sees and savors his glory in all his works, especially the gospel.

If we live twenty-nine years or if we live ninety-nine years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God?

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

And Christ "will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." (Heb 9:28). And "on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written"---not king of the Jews, but "King of all kings and Lord of lords." (Rev. 19:16). Amen. Come, King Jesus.

In fact the astonishing thing is that every good deed we do in dependence on Him to "pay Him back" does just the opposite; it puts us ever deeper in debt to His grace.