Quotes about Salvation

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.

For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned

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.

Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture.

Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

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.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.