Salvation Quotes

• It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Church
  • Salvation
  • Deny

• For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Possible
  • Position

• New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Cities
  • Paradox
  • Sanctification

• ... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Losing
  • Salvation
  • Outlook

• Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Lord
  • Conditions
  • Salvation

• To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Freedom
  • Joy
  • Being

• If salvation could come by belonging to the covenantal community of the chosen people, or by keeping the Law of Moses, there would be no reason for God’s messiah to have suffered an excruciating death. Following the law thus must have no bearing on how a person stands in a right relationship with God.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Death
  • Relationship

• Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Salvation

• Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

  

  William Nicholson
  • Enemy
  • Needs
  • Self

• I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Creatures
  • Reduce
  • Traverse

• One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Sin
  • Believed
  • Prayed

• In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Salvation
  • Holiness
  • Redemption

• The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Heart
  • Lies

• The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Character
  • Certainty

• It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (“collectivity”) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • Enough
  • Values
  • Equal

• This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Earth
  • Blood
  • Neighbour

• Music became my refuge and then my salvation.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Music
  • Salvation
  • Refuge

• What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Grace
  • Evidence
  • Salvation

• I feel you keeping me alive, you are my salvation.

  

  Jen Ledger Skillet
  • Feel
  • Alive
  • Keeping

• Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Should
  • Mercy

• The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Jesus
  • Theory
  • Gospel

• It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • People
  • Pain
  • Suffering

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