Quotes about Salvation

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.