Quotes on Salvation & the Gospel

Learn to know the beauty of love and power and sympathy of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

The Gospel of Jesus was so full and practical, and with good, common sense it seemed to cover all my need.

Nothing can be our redemption but the restoration of the lost humility, the original and only true relation of the creature to its God.

Many a one wishes to be saved, but perishes because he does not will it.

The Way, the Saviour Himself, well pleased me, but as yet I shrunk from going through its straitness.

Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before rescued my heart.

Let me not be mine own life; from myself I lived ill, death was I to myself; and I revive in Thee.

The Lord's salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed.

Jesus Christ is to them a Saviour strong and mighty, a Rock immovable and immutable; they cling to him for dear life, and this clinging saves them.

Faith which refuses to obey the commands of the Saviour is a mere pretence, and will never save the soul.

You need not, therefore, despair: that which is necessary to salvation is not continuous thought, but a simple reliance upon Jesus.

Jesus has nothing which He will not use for a sinner's salvation, and He is nothing which He will not display in the aboundings of His grace.

Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies.

Our awakenings are not to help the Saviour, but to help us to the Saviour.

Salvation is not by our knowing our own ruin, but by fully grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus.

Trust Christ, and by that trust you grasp salvation and eternal life.

We are saved by faith, and not by feeling; yet there is a relation between holy faith and hallowed feeling like that between the root and the flower.

The gospel is not a scheme of giving to God, but of receiving from God.

As the Lord hath but one family, written in one register, redeemed with one blood, quickened by one Spirit, so this whole household abides in one habitation evermore.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you, even you, will be saved.

Whether faith is large or small, whether you can do much or little for Christ, salvation depends not on what you are but on what Jesus Christ is.

Come utterly ruined and undone, for in Jesus Christ there is the strength and salvation which thy case requires.

Prayer does not interpret God’s providences, but it does justify them and recognise God in them.

God’s Gospel has always waited more on prayer than on anything else for its successes.

The end of the journey for all who walk in faith, is that they shall be with their Saviour, glorified in His presence.

The answer is, believe in the Lord Jesus, trust in Him, depend upon Him alone as it regards the salvation of your soul.

Jesus came not to save painted but real sinners; but he has saved us, and will surely make it manifest.

Do you verily depend upon him alone for the salvation of your soul?

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.

It was one of the objects of our Saviour's mission to reveal to us that, in Christ Jesus, God is also our Father.

The God of the Bible is a God who punishes sin, and cannot pardon without atonement.

God justifieth not the godly, but the ungodly; not those that are holy already, but the unholy.

We might have loved God the Creator, God the Preserver, God the Governor; but there would have been no place for love to God the Redeemer.

Christ is not only God above us; which may keep us in awe, but cannot save; but he is Immanuel, God with us, and in us.

God has revealed no certain connection between salvation, and any qualifications in men, but only grace and its fruits.

Conversion is a great and universal change of the man, turning him from sin to God.

Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.

We are dependent on Christ the Son of God, as he is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

The present is very precious; these are the days of salvation; now is the acceptable time.