In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you...

Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross.

Dear God, save us from The Church!

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

There is no sin unless through a man’s own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.”(Against Fortunatus)

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one’s judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool...

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

They made me one of them, a part of a family in a way I never had been before. Beyond gratitude and obligation, I chose them. I chose them because they love me, because they...

Only a “dry as dust” religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks...

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

…stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the...

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly...

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

[It] could be argued that the favorite sin of Satan would not be vanity, as described in ‘Devil’s Advocate’, or even unbelief in the existence of the devil, as described in ‘The Usual Suspects,’ but...

Marriage is one salvation pathway among many, although it contains different possibilities.

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!

when men tarry in the place of prayer with broken hearts and wounded souls thirsty to reach out then revival is at the door post

You are the individual and the entire Universe.

To be saved is to believe in one’s own courage.

…if you’re walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they’ll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Scripture also makes clear that our faith is not a work. Our new status is based wholly on the merits of Christ and not on anything about us. While a paintbrush may be the instrumental...

Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon–the song of God’s miraculous firmament–might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ’s love and sacrifice.

We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don’t want a relationship with the living God. By trying to...

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

I grew up believing Christians didn’t just believe in Jesus. To be saved, people had to look and speak a certain way. They followed a long list of nots to ensure their holiness. They fit...

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God’s law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I’ll sign on the dotted line.

It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great...

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

God’s love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

If a person is saved, and still continues to live according to his former worldly way of life, he isnot only destroying himself and his salvation — he is also destroying his whole life.

If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only they have any chance of being saved, then ‘love’ has no intelligible meaning...

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

I read nonfiction.”She reared back as if offended.

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God’s will.

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel...

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems….

They have not forgotten the Mysteries,’ she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will...