Quotes Tagged "salvation"

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

The world is God's salvation.

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

God doesn’t want us to focus on what mankind has done, but on what He plans to do.

If you wish to return to God, pray for grace.

Pain believes itself to be the force that pushes everyone away. But God says that pain is the invitation that He could never throw away.

The gospel of God is the grace of salvation.

The glory of God is reveal through His righteous redemptive power .

God never gives up on you.

There is salvation for sinners through the grace of God.

The Christian is bound to perform many good works, but before all else what he ought to do is to pray, for without prayer no other good work whatever can be accomplished. Without prayer he cannot find the way to the Lord, he cannot understand the truth, he cannot crucify the flesh with its passions and lusts, his heart cannot be enlightened with the light of Christ, he cannot be savingly united to God. None of those things can be effected unless they are preceded by constant prayer.

Heaven is where Christmas came from. And if we give it permission to do so, someday it will take us back there with it.

Jesus died a criminal’s death surrounded by a handful of followers who refused to do anything other than a chase a God who, through His death at that very moment, was chasing them.

On that first Christmas morning, the cries of this newborn were ignored by a world off to greater agendas from which this child would rise to save us.

One of the things that vexes me to the point of near insanity is understanding the message of Christmas and realizing the potency of this message to transform the worst of our lives so that we can become the best of our ourselves, to shift the momentum of entire cultures so that the world is brilliantly enriched by each instead of destroyed by all, and to handily touch the hem of history itself so that history is changed in the touching. And while all of these are ours for the taking, I continue to watch the mindless hoards trudge past these things in order to embrace everything that is not the ‘everything’ of these gifts. And so I pray that God would grant them a heart ready to be captured by the ‘everything’ of Christmas.

He always hoped God would provide him with salvation, someday. He believed that everything he went through was a test of his faith.

The gospel of salvation is to be saved from sin.

I’ve written a few stories in my time. But sooner or later you realize that the greatest stories can’t be written by men because the best of our humanity can’t pen the stories that will save our lives. And so, God sat down and wrote one on Christmas.

Do you desire redemption? Trust in the righteous God.