Quotes about Salvation
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
- John Calvin
Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.
- John Calvin
Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture.
- John Calvin
Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.
- John Calvin
Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.
- John Calvin
There has been nothing in heaven or on earth which has not witnessed that Jesus Christ is God, Lord and Master, and the great Ambassador of the Father sent here below to accomplish the salvation of mankind.
- John Calvin
Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.
- John Calvin
There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.
- John Calvin
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
- John Calvin
First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.
- John Calvin
The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal.
- John Calvin
It is at this point that the gospel differs most from philosophy, since it teaches that the salvation of men is through the free remission of sins.
- John Calvin