Quotes about Salvation

God gave us the Scriptures not just to inform or motivate us; more than anything he wants to save us.

Wrong. Christ was not our substitute but our representative, and since His saving passion was representative, it doesn't exempt us from suffering but rather endows our suffering with divine power and redemptive value.

Without Christ, the world was a joyless place and any place where he remains unknown and unaccepted is a joyless place. Everything has changed since Christ's birth yet everything remains to be changed as people come to receive the child in faith.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Only Christ can give us food that satisfies our spiritual hunger and gives everlasting

Both Christ and Scripture, says the Second Vatican Council, are given for the sake of our salvation (Dei Verbum 11), and both give us God's definitive revelation of himself. We cannot, therefore, conceive of one without the other: the Bible without Jesus, or Jesus without the Bible.

God does not will that any of us should ever sin. Yet his will is accomplished in spite of our sins, and even through our sins.

God is the eternal Father of Jesus Christ. And God is Father of those who live in Jesus Christ, through baptism.

What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.

Inerrancy is our guarantee that the words and deeds of God found in the Bible are unified and true, declaring with one voice the wonders of his saving love.

So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.