God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, “I love you.”
– Billy Graham
Salvation | The Cross
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
– Martin Luther
Salvation
Since no man is excluded from calling upon God the gate of salvation is open to all. There is nothing else to hinder us from entering, but our own unbelief.
– John Calvin
Salvation | Unbelief
You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
– Billy Graham
Death | Salvation
Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.
– Rick Warren
Salvation | The Future
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
– Billy Graham
Finances | Salvation
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our “accepting” and “willing” are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
– A. W. Tozer
Salvation | Choices
Salvation comes through a cross and a crucified Christ.
– Andrew Murray
Salvation | The Cross
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
– Augustine
Salvation
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
– J. C. Ryle
Salvation
Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God’s love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.
– David Jeremiah
Salvation | Time
Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.
– A. W. Tozer
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The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death.
– Augustine
Christ | Death | Salvation
You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man.
– Charles Spurgeon
Theology | Salvation
No one can have the peace of God until they are at peace with God.
– Jack Wellman
Peace | Salvation
It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him – freedom from sin.
– Watchman Nee
Sin | Freedom | Salvation
It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme–salvation through faith in Christ.
– Max Lucado
The Bible | Salvation
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
– A. W. Tozer
Salvation | Obedience
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say ‘Yes, I am saved’. When? ‘Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and…’ Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
– Leonard Ravenhill
Salvation | Bitterness
If one believes in the death of the Lord Jesus as his substitute he already has been united with the Lord Jesus in His death. For me to believe that in the substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus is to believe that I already have been punished in the Lord Jesus. The penalty of my sin is death; yet the Lord Jesus suffered death for me; therefore I have died in Him.
– Watchman Nee
Salvation
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
– C.S. Lewis
Atheism | Salvation | Repentance
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
– Blaise Pascal
Salvation
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God’s good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ’s blood.
– William Tyndale
Salvation | The Heart
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
– Blaise Pascal
Salvation | The Gospel
Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn’t come to frighten us, but to show us the way to warmth and safety.
– Chuck Swindoll
The Trinity | Salvation
The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from Hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
– A. W. Pink
Salvation | Heresy | Carnality
We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which He contributes grace and we contribute faith. For we were dead and had to be quickened before we could believe. No, Christ’s apostles clearly teach elsewhere that saving faith too is God’s gracious gift.
– John Stott
Salvation
We may sing beforehand, even in our winter storm, in the expectation of a summer sun at the turn of the year; no created powers can mar our Lord Jesus’ music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord; for faith had never yet cause to have wet cheeks, and hanging-down brows, or to droop or die.
– Samuel Rutherford
Contentment | Salvation
You could not be saved through any effort of your own, but now that you are saved it is necessary for you to put forward every effort you can to glorify Him.
– Harry Ironside
Salvation
Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our savior. We have but one Savior; and that one Savior is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
– B.B. Warfield
Jesus | Salvation
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
– Oswald Chambers
Salvation | The Gospel
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
– John Bunyan
Christ | Salvation | Eternity
There is not a verse in the Bible that teaches that God places the believer in a position to be saved provided he does other things. No. No. The Bible says He saves the believer.
– Curtis Hutson
Salvation
You are saved – seek to be like your Savior.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation – a toast to God!
– Bono
Blessings | Salvation
No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved – in virtue of what God can do.
– Karl Barth
Salvation
The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.
– William Temple
Sin | Salvation
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people–you will be that inevitably–but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
– Alan Redpath
Salvation
Works are not necessary to earn salvation. But true salvation wrought by God will not fail to produce the good works that are its fruit.
– John MacArthur
Salvation
For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day–and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
– Ken Ham
Atheism | Salvation
For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins–but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
– Dave Hunt
Justice | Salvation
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
– Samuel Rutherford
Salvation
Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.
– William J. Seymour
Salvation
The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.
– Harry Ironside
Salvation | The Gospel
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
– C.S. Lewis
Jesus | Salvation | Sacrifice
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.
– Hudson Taylor
Prayer | Service | Salvation
The grace of God hath power to bring salvation to all men, and if a man is unsaved it is because he wants to work it out; he wants to receive salvation in some other way than God’s way; but we are told that “he that climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
However tiring our work may be, how could it ever be tiresome? How could it be anything less than a joy to serve the One who has given us all things for life, and enrichment, and enjoyment? Jesus, who suffered so much to secure our salvation.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Salvation | Jesus | Service
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
– Alan Redpath
Salvation
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God’s plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.
– Alan Keyes
Salvation
Christ’s voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.
– Alexander MacLaren
Salvation
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
– Thomas Aquinas
Salvation | Truth
Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’
– C.S. Lewis
Salvation
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
– C.S. Lewis
Salvation | Grace
If there is anything excellent, it is salvation; if there be anything necessary, it is working out salvation; if there be any tool to work with, tis holy fear.
– Thomas Watson
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As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
– William Booth
Salvation
The mightiest man that ever lived could not deliver himself from his sins. If a man could have saved himself, Christ would never have come into the world.
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.
– Kirk Cameron
Salvation | Trust
When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.
– John Newton
Life | Salvation | Youth
O what a narrow way is that which leads to life!
– William Tiptaft
Salvation
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
– Jonathan Edwards
Salvation | Righteousness
Just because God worketh in him, as the evidence and triumph of it, the true child of God works out his own salvation–works it out having really received it–not as a light thing, a superfluous labor, but with fear and trembling as a reasonable and indispensable service.
– Henry Drummond
Salvation
Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.
– Theodore Epp
Salvation | Murder | Eternal Life
But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.
– Tim LaHaye
Prophecy | Salvation
They believe the doctrine of election, but they have not the faith of God’s elect. They swear by final perseverance, but persevere in unbelief. They confess all the five points of Calvinism, but they have not come to the one most needful point of looking unto Jesus, that they may be saved.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things; That I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior.
– John Newton
Salvation
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
– George Whitefield
Salvation
If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the earth.
– C.S. Lewis
Atonement | Salvation | History
If you receive Him it will be well; if you reject Him and are lost it will be terrible.
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
For those who have not yet turned to the Lord for His salvation, their condition of suffering often creates compelling opportunities for them to cry out to God for His help. To those who do so in truth, He shows His mercy for their temporal plight and provides grace for their new life in Christ and their eternal destiny.
– T.A. McMahon
Suffering | Salvation
A child of five, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as an adult.
– Charles Spurgeon
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Christ died for us, the least we can do is live for Him.
– Pamela Christian
Salvation | Faith
Christ’s dying on the cross for our sins led to a ‘No Charge’ debt.
– Victoria Thomas Pollar
Salvation
If thou sin, the word of God is thy adversary. It is the adversary of thy will till it become the author of thy salvation.
– Augustine
Scripture | Salvation
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price–and is a rejection of the gift of God’s grace.
– Dave Hunt
Salvation | Pride
A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not the token of salvation. It is told of Julian, the apostate, that while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it out, and, taking a handful of blood threw it into the air and cried, “Galilean, Galilean, thou hast conquered.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Salvation
Except a mineral be born “from above”–from the Kingdom just ABOVE it–it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be born “from above,” by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just above him.
– Henry Drummond
Salvation
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.
– Charles Spurgeon
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Adoption is a greater mercy than Adam had in paradise.
– Thomas Watson
Salvation
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: “It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.
– John Selden
Scripture | Salvation | Comfort
The gospel is called a burden and a yoke, lest we presume; yet light and easy, lest we despair.
– Assorted Authors
Salvation | The Gospel
Salvation is God’s way of making us real people.
– Augustine
Salvation
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people–you will be that inevitably–but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
– Alan Redpath
Salvation
If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God’s salvation you haven’t believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
– Tim Keller
The Gospel | Inspiration | Salvation
In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works.
– A. W. Pink
Satan | Salvation
If ever a monk could get to heaven through monastic discipline, I was that monk. And yet my conscience would not give me certainty, but I always doubted and said, ‘You didn’t do that right. You weren’t contrite enough. You left that out of your confession.’ The more I tried to remedy an uncertain, weak, and troubled conscience with human traditions, the more I daily found it more uncertain, weaker, and more troubled.
– Martin Luther
Salvation | Discipline
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author’s control.
– C.S. Lewis
Miracles | Salvation | Resurrection
If He hides the sin, or lesseneth it, He is faulty; if He leaves it still upon us, we die. He must then take our iniquity to Himself, make it His own, and so deliver us; for thus having taken the sin upon Himself, as lawfully He may, and lovingly He doth, it followeth that we live if He lives; and who can desire more?
– John Bunyan
Salvation
There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
– J.I. Packer
Salvation | Worship
Jesus, as He was going up the hill, fell beneath the load. Loss of blood, breaking of heart, weary in body, blind from his own blood that came from a crown of thorns. And Jesus said “I can’t make it any further.” Yet He climbed on up to Calvary and stretched out his arms as he hung on the cross, and said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” He went on when He couldn’t go on. He finished it when He couldn’t, but He did.
– Lester Roloff
Salvation | Perseverance
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
– John Calvin
Salvation
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy. Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone accepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace.
– John Owen
Heaven | Salvation
Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
– Vance Havner
Salvation
The cross stands for definite realities which embody and express the leading characteristics of Christ’s agony.
– A. W. Pink
Salvation | Christ | The Cross
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
– C.S. Lewis
Salvation
Look at Him at Gethsemane, sweating as it were great drops of blood; look at Him on the cross, crucified between two thieves; hear that piercing cry, “Father, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” And as you look into that face, as you look into those wounds on His feet or His hands, will you say He has not the power to save you? Will you say He has not the power so redeem you?
– Dwight L. Moody
The Cross | Salvation
Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching – where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.
– Charles Spurgeon
Salvation
There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.
– Charles Spurgeon
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