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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."
- Billy Graham
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Since no man is excluded from calling upon God the gate of salvation is open to all. There is nothing else to hinder us from entering, but our own unbelief.
- John Calvin
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Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
- Martin Luther
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Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.
- Rick Warren
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Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
- Billy Graham
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You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
- Billy Graham
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Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
- A. W. Tozer
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One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
- J. C. Ryle
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Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.
- A. W. Tozer
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Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.
- David Jeremiah
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The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death.
- Augustine
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No one can have the peace of God until they are at peace with God.
- Jack Wellman
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It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ's blood and merit.
- Charles Spurgeon
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You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man.
- Charles Spurgeon
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It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him - freedom from sin.
- Watchman Nee
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Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme--salvation through faith in Christ.
- Max Lucado
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The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from Hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
- A. W. Pink
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It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
- A. W. Tozer
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In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works.
- A. W. Pink
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You could not be saved through any effort of your own, but now that you are saved it is necessary for you to put forward every effort you can to glorify Him.
- Harry Ironside
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If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
- Leonard Ravenhill
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And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
- William Tyndale
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Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn't come to frighten us, but to show us the way to warmth and safety.
- Chuck Swindoll
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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
- C.S. Lewis
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When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.
- John Newton
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We may sing beforehand, even in our winter storm, in the expectation of a summer sun at the turn of the year; no created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord; for faith had never yet cause to have wet cheeks, and hanging-down brows, or to droop or die.
- Samuel Rutherford
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The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.
- Harry Ironside
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The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.
- William Temple
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We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which He contributes grace and we contribute faith. For we were dead and had to be quickened before we could believe. No, Christ's apostles clearly teach elsewhere that saving faith too is God's gracious gift.
- John Stott
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Works are not necessary to earn salvation. But true salvation wrought by God will not fail to produce the good works that are its fruit.
- John MacArthur
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Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our savior. We have but one Savior; and that one Savior is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
- B.B. Warfield
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I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done.
- Curtis Hutson
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If one believes in the death of the Lord Jesus as his substitute he already has been united with the Lord Jesus in His death. For me to believe that in the substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus is to believe that I already have been punished in the Lord Jesus. The penalty of my sin is death; yet the Lord Jesus suffered death for me; therefore I have died in Him.
- Watchman Nee
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However tiring our work may be, how could it ever be tiresome? How could it be anything less than a joy to serve the One who has given us all things for life, and enrichment, and enjoyment? Jesus, who suffered so much to secure our salvation.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- C.S. Lewis
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
- Blaise Pascal
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
- Oswald Chambers
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Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
- John Bunyan
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There is not a verse in the Bible that teaches that God places the believer in a position to be saved provided he does other things. No. No. The Bible says He saves the believer.
- Curtis Hutson
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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
- George Whitefield
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We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
- Alan Redpath
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For those who have not yet turned to the Lord for His salvation, their condition of suffering often creates compelling opportunities for them to cry out to God for His help. To those who do so in truth, He shows His mercy for their temporal plight and provides grace for their new life in Christ and their eternal destiny.
- T.A. McMahon
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For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day--and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
- Ken Ham
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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form. The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
- C.S. Lewis
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The grace of God hath power to bring salvation to all men, and if a man is unsaved it is because he wants to work it out; he wants to receive salvation in some other way than God's way; but we are told that "he that climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber."
- Dwight L. Moody