#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

It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in those who stray and do not repent. Those who have not committed cannot stray. ↗

— Sarah Price

#salvation #religion

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. ↗

— John Cheever

#case #damned #despair #guided #inspired

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#basic #equipped #fully #life #means

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

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#light #mine #own #recommend #salvation

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

— Louisa May Alcott

#been #i #lord #salvation #thank

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#been #cliche #constant #music #salvation

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#advent #afterwards #before #certain #elect

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#army #associated #away #ball #been