#salvation

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 Simmons

#irony #salvation #self-destruction #salvation

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children. ↗

— Mark Buchanan

#regeneration #salvation #love

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#inspirational #keller #salvation #inspirational

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#salvation #sin #men

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish. ↗

— Ambrose of Milan

#inspiration #salvation #suffering #inspirational

Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit. ↗

— C. Baxter Kruger

#salvation #forgiveness

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#band #begotten-son #bible #christ #floor

To progress is always to begin always to begin again ↗

— Martin Luther

#progress #salvation #sanctification #forgiveness

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#inspirational #salvation #inspirational

If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God cannot in any sense intend that all shall be saved, as 1 Timothy 4:10 declares. The promise of glory is conditional on grace being received by faith active in love. ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#calvinism #election #god-s-love #jesus #salvation