Quotes about Salvation

First, the Puritans showed a profound dependence upon the Holy Spirit in everything they said and did. They felt keenly their inability to bring anyone to Christ as well as the magnitude of conversion.

In Christ's first coming, He implemented a rescue plan conceived in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. He did not come to promote holiday cheer, boost end-of-year sales, or serve as the central figure in a Nativity scene. He came to save sinners. To save sinners, Christ had to put away what makes people sinners—namely, sin.

Thus the covenant of grace forms the heart of salvation itself. Perkins wrote, "We are to know God, not as he is in himself, but as he hath revealed himself unto us in the covenant of grace; and therefore we must acknowledge the Father to be our Father, the Son to be our Redeemer, the holy Ghost to be our comforter, and seek to grow in the knowledge and experience of this.

Listening to a sermon that does not reform your life will never save your soul.

In damnation, the sinner receives what he deserves; in salvation, the saved sinner receives what he does not deserve. Judgment is all of merit; salvation is all of grace.

Conviction—or the killing work of the law—is the way that leads to Christ, not a condition for receiving Christ.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

No life is great that does not point to Christ.