Salvation Quotes

Only a dry as dust religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The proof of salvation is not listening to the Word, or having a quick emotional response to the Word, or even cultivating the Word so that it grows in a life. The proof of salvation is fruit, for as Christ said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16).

~ Warren W. Wiersbe

I may be fucked up, I may be a mess, but you are my salvation.

~ Stevie J. Cole

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

~ Jared Brock

Let us all choose to become citizens of humanity rather than citizens of hate, perhaps collectively we can achieve the salvation of the human race from its own evil….

~ Husam Wafaei

I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that the wicked act on their own desires and impulses, because God is good, only good, and He would never compel a soul to wickedness. That I`m supposed to count on justice in the next life, even if I can`t have it in this one.

~ Alexandra Bracken

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

~ Haruki Murakami

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...

~ Emil M. Cioran

How I hated myself, thwarted, poisoned and tortured myself, made myself old and ugly. Never again, as I once fondly imagined, will I consider that Siddartha is clever. But one thing I have done well, which pleases me, which I must praise- I have now put an end to that self-detestation, to that foolish empty life. I commend you, Siddartha, that after so many years of folly, you have again a good idea, that you have accomplished something, that you have again heard the bird in your breast sing and followed it.

~ Hermann Hesse

On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, and that salvation may be granted to me despite the frozen mud and horror in my heart.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

The Resurrection is not a single event, but a loosening of God's power and light into the earth and history that continues to alter all things, infusing them with the grace and power of God's own holiness. It is as though a door was opened, and what poured out will never be stopped, and that door cannot be closed.

~ Megan Mckenna

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

~ John Charles Pollock

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

~ John Charles Pollock

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

~ Avery Flynn

Time for a showdown with her mutinous brewmaster. She'd tried nice. She'd tried all business. She'd tried cajoling. Now, it was time to try bitch with big brass balls.

~ Avery Flynn

In her career, she'd closed multi-million dollar deals without a hint of nerves. Now she needed a jumbo-sized bottle of antacids just to get out of her car. Or a double shot of whiskey. God, she was losing it.

~ Avery Flynn

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

~ Avery Flynn

Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].

~ St. Justin

The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

~ Hugh Howey

Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.Maybe. I don’t know. But I was careful never to give myself away.

~ Jay Asher

The best gift that you can give to your favourite person is to lead him or her to God.

~ Osunsakin Adewale

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

~ Ann Voskamp

I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes-- marvelous these royal robes!These robes are authority that can decree that trouble, sin of my heart,and the deceptive obstruction of willand reasoning be sent to banishment.

~ Quinesia Johnson

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.

~ William H. Gass

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

~ Horatius Bonar

The work of redemption is applied to individuals definitively (in justification), progressively (in sanctification), and completely (in glorification). In the same way, the work of redemption is applied universally to the kingdom definitively (in its inauguration), progressively (in its expansion), and completely (in its consummation).

~ Keith A. Mathison

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

~ Mark Dever

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.

~ Claudia Gray

[Salvation] is a life-changing experience when it happens, and if our life isn’t changed by it, then it either didn’t happen at all or we are so caught up in this world, spending so much time, effort, and emotion on the red circle, that we are ignoring the permanent, eternal, gigantic, blue part of the map in which we will forever be.

~ Van Harden

If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?

~ Jonathan Edwards

One may be outside the church, but one can never be outside of God's love.

~ Clark H. Pinnock

Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

~ Ann Voskamp

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage!

~ Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have any chance of being saved, then 'love' has no intelligible meaning when referring to God. All Christians agree that God is love. But believers in limited atonement must interpret God’s love as somehow compatible with God unconditionally selecting some people to eternal torment in hell when He could save them (because election to salvation and thus salvation itself is unconditional).

~ Roger E. Olson

Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to con

~ Alex Jeffers

one of the great virtues of Christianity, according to (John)Wesley, is the way it fills up our every waking hour. Both (N.T.) Wright and Wesley write that Christianity is not just about what God does for us but what God does in us.

~ John Meunier

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

~ Timothy J. Keller

They made me one of them, a part of a family in a way I never had been before. Beyond gratitude and obligation, I chose them. I chose them because they love me, because they accept me, and maybe because they’re wild and rowdy. Maybe because they brought me to my mother. And I still choose them. They brought me to him, and for that, they’ll always have my loyalty. Because he was my salvation.

~ J.c. Emery