Quotes about Salvation

Our faith rests not just on Jesus' example but on his resurrection.

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.

No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.

To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.

Humility is the real Christian virtue," says Nouwen. "When we come to realize that . . . only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives.