#salvation

Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) ↗

#inspirational #salvation #scripture #inspirational

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation? ↗

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save. ↗

— Simone Weil

#religion

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#christ

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#salvation #hurt

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#author #eminent #end #error #god

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#cannot #first #responsible #salvation #sin

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. ↗

— Julien Green

#bad #books #christians #find #good

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#clearly #covenant #grace #may #more

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. ↗