Quotes about Salvation

What then is the Word of God which gives us life; what but the law, the prophets, and the gospel?

The apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ.

But Scripture praises everywhere his pure and unmixed mercy, which does away with all merit.

The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death.

For he has this comfort, which provides greater security to him than the highest peak of wealth or power— he knows that his affairs are ordered by the Lord and, as such, promote his salvation. We see this sentiment in David, who, while following God and entrusting himself to God's rule, declared: "I do not occupy myself with things too great and marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother" (Ps. 131:1—2).

We should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

Let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him.

There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.

If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy."   (Psalm 33:16-18)