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Quotes about Salvation

Artificial methodizing of spiritual truths may make men ready in notions, cunning and subtile in disputations; but it is the Scripture itself that is able to "make us wise unto salvation.
- John Owen
We do it by love. Christ as crucified is the great object of our love, or should so be; for he is therein unto sinners "altogether lovely." Hence one of the ancients cried out, "My love is crucified, and why do I stay behind?" In the death of Christ do his love, his grace, his condescension, most gloriously shine forth.
- John Owen
The soul which can be satisfied without beholding the glory of Christ, is not a soul for whom Christ prays.
- John Owen
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live" (chapter 7). Oh, the pastoral insights that emerge from Owen! As here: If you are fighting sin, you are alive. Take heart.
- John Owen
God will justify us from our sins, but he will not justify the least sin in us: He is a God of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.
- John Owen
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
- John Owen
The thought of these people having the bold idea of leaving their homes to come here and pray pleases and reassures Rabbit, and moves him to close his own eyes and bow his head with a movement so tiny that Ruth won't notice. Help me, Christ. Forgive me. Take me down the way. Bless Ruth, Janice, Nelson, my mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Springer, and the unborn baby. Forgive Tothero and all the others. Amen.
- John Updike
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
- Pope John Paul II
Let me go to the house of the Father.
- Pope John Paul II
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
- St. Basil
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
- Catherine of Siena