Salvation proverbs

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◆ I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

- R.C. Sproul98

◆ It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

- John MacArthur98

◆ Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

- Dan Simmons98

◆ We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

- C.S. Lewis98

◆ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

- Anonymous98

◆ One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

- Brennan Manning98

◆ ...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all....

- Arthur W. Pink98

◆ I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay,and He has set my feet upon a ROCK and He established my steps, and He has given me a a new song even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord...the first 3 lines of an ancient Hebrew song Psalm 40:1-3

- King David98

◆ To progress is always to begin always to begin again

- Martin Luther98

◆ Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.

- Criss Jami98

◆ Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

- Charles Bukowski98

◆ The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

- Malcolm Muggeridge98

◆ Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

- Oscar A. Romero98

◆ I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!

- Charles H. Spurgeon98

◆ If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

- E.A. Bucchianeri98