Quotes about Salvation

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.

The Bible specifically states that sin cannot be blamed on how God made us. "When tempted, no one should say 'God is tempting me' " (Jas. 1:13). God wants us to come to terms with our sin and embrace the solution He has provided that can save us from judgment.

[The Civil War] created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within — except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.