Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
M. R. DeHaan
Salvation
Christian Quotes About Salvation…
David Shepherd — If ever you are tempted to say…
If ever you are tempted to say, “I wish someone were to die and leave me something in his will,” allow me to tell you, “Someone has!”
David Shepherd
John MacArthur — Mankind wants glory…
Mankind wants glory. We want health. We want wealth. We want happiness. We want all our felt needs met, all our little human itches scratched. We want a painless life. We want the crown without the cross. We want the gain without the pain. We want the words of Christ’s salvation to be easy.
John MacArthur
Francois Fenelon — Nothing marks so much…
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one’s wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
Francois Fenelon
Vance Havner — Our salvation includes more…
Our salvation includes more than pardon from sin, deliverance from hell and a ticket to heaven. It includes all that we shall need on our journey.
Vance Havner
C. H. Spurgeon — Ah! the bridge of grace…
Ah! the bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by their thousands, by their myriads; e’er since the day when Christ first entered into His glory, they come, and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners, and some have come at the very last of their days, but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support; it will bear me over as it has borne them.
C. H. Spurgeon
Eugene Peterson — The Hebrew evening/morning sequence…
The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work…We wake into a world we didn’t make, into a salvation we didn’t earn.
Eugene Peterson
William Barclay — The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ…
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
William Barclay
Life Application Study Bible — Jesus went through an unfair trial…
Jesus went through an unfair trial in our place so that we would not have to face a fair trial and receive the well-deserved punishment for our sins.
Life Application Study Bible
Malcolm Muggeridge — I can say that I never knew what joy was…
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Seraphim of Sarov — Have peace in your heart…
Have peace in your heart, and thousands will be saved around you.
Seraphim of Sarov
Billy Graham — The hope we have in Christ…
The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
Billy Graham
Corrie ten Boom — If Jesus were born one thousand times…
If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
Corrie ten Boom
Thomas Brooks — The Lord has made a promise…
The Lord has made a promise to late repentance, but where has he made a promise of late repentance?
Thomas Brooks
Francois Fenelon — How dangerous it is for our salvation…
How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.
Francois Fenelon
J. I. Packer — The gospel starts by teaching us…
The gospel starts by teaching us that we, as creatures, are absolutely dependent on God, and that he, as Creator, has an absolute claim on us. Only when we have learned this can we see what sin is, and only when we see what sin is can we understand the good news of salvation from sin.
J. I. Packer
Charles Spurgeon — Godliness is a life-long business…
Godliness is a life-long business. The working out of the salvation that the Lord, himself, works in you is not a matter of certain hours, or of a limited period of life. Salvation is unfolded throughout our entire sojourn here.
Charles Spurgeon
Advent Herald — The following is a quotation from the words of Dr. W. B. Hinson…
The following is a quotation from the words of Dr. W. B. Hinson, speaking from the pulpit a year after the commencement of the illness from which he ultimately died: “I remember a year ago when a man in this city said, ‘You have got to go to your death.’ I walked out to where I live, five miles out of this city, and I looked across at that mountain that I love, and I looked at the river in which I rejoice, and I looked at the stately trees that are always God’s own poetry to my soul. Then in the evening I looked up into the great sky where God was lighting his lamps, and I said ‘I may not see you many more times, but, Mountain, I shall be alive when you are gone; and, River, I shall be alive when you cease running toward the sea; and, Stars, I shall be alive when you have fallen from your sockets in the great down-pulling of the material universe!'” This is the confidence of one who knew the Saviour. Is it yours?
Advent Herald
Inscription on the grave of Dean Alford — The inn of a traveler…
The inn of a traveler on the way to Jerusalem.
Inscription on the grave of Dean Alford
John Everett — No man ever enters heaven until…
No man ever enters heaven until he is first convinced that he deserves hell.
John Everett
Frederick William Faber — We cannot resist the conviction that this world…
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator’s majesty.
Frederick William Faber
Lewis Sperry Chafer — Anyone can devise a plan…
Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
Dale Evans Rogers — The battle…
The battle- our battle- against every temptation that can ever try to take us on has already been won on that first Easter morning. All we’re involved in is a mopping up operation.
Dale Evans Rogers
St. Patrick Breastplate — May the strength of God…
May the strength of God pilot us.
May the power of God preserve us.
May the wisdom of God instruct us.
May the hand of God protect us.
May the way of God direct us.
May the shield of God defend us.
May the host of God guard us against the snares of evil and the temptations of the world.
May Christ be with us.
Christ before us.
Christ in us.
Christ over us.
May Thy salvation, O Lord, be always ours this day and forever more.
St. Patrick Breastplate
J. C. Ryle — Christ would have lived…
Christ would have lived, and taught, and preached, and prophesied, and wrought miracles in vain, if he had not crowned all by dying for our sins as our substitute! His death was our life. His death was the payment of our debt to God. Without his death we should have been of all creatures most miserable.
J. C. Ryle
Basil the Great — Be aware of God’s compassion…
Be aware of God’s compassion, that it heals with oil and wine. Do not lose hope of salvation. Remember what is written- the one who falls shall rise again, and the one who turns away shall turn again; the wounded is healed; the one caught by wild beasts escapes; the one who confesses is not rejected. For the Lord does not want the sinner to die, but to return and live. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you fallen? Rise up, Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but keep away from them. For when you turn back and weep, then you will be saved.
Basil the Great, in a letter to a monk who had sinned
Steve Kumar — The founders of the world’s religions say…
The founders of the world’s religions say, “Do! Do! Do!” but Christ says, “Done! It is finished!”
Steve Kumar
Francois Fenelon — There is nothing that is more dangerous…
There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
Francois Fenelon
Charles Spurgeon — The greatest enemy to human souls…
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
Roy Lessin — If our greatest need…
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.
Roy Lessin
D .L. Moody — At a certain meeting…
At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!”
D .L. Moody
C. Sproul — We know people…
We know people who have been “converted” many times. Every time there is a church revival they go to the altar and get “saved.” One minister told of a man in his congregation who had been “saved” seventeen times. During a revival meeting the evangelist made an altar call for all who wanted to be filled with the Spirit. The man who had been converted so often made his way toward the altar again. A woman from the congregation shouted, “Don’t fill him, Lord. He leaks!” Those who become “unconverted” were never converted in the first place.
C. Sproul
Nancy Leigh De Moss — We want gain without pain…
We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God’s economy, the way up is down.
Nancy Leigh De Moss
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