Quotes about Salvation

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

If you try to deal with sin in your conscience, let it remain there, and continue to look at it in your heart, your sins will become too strong for you. They will seem to live forever. But when you think of your sins as being on Christ and boldly believe that he conquered them through his resurrection, then they are dead and gone. Sin can't remain on Christ. His resurrection swallowed up sin.

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.