human desires are the main cause of suffering

Change is difficult, but necessary for salvation. Turn from your sins and acknowledge Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Let Him take control of your life. He won’t let you down. He’s not you. He’s...

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: ‘Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus...

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new...

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

May God open our mind and hearts to the gospel of salvation.

Depths of Friendship…under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold…

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

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn’t make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the...

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can...

The Judgement is not a question, it’s a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.

Come to salvation!

I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift...

The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

The mouse that makes jest of a cat has already seen a hole nearby… We don’t fear the devil because we are leaning on the resurrection power of Christ!

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.

God does not believe for us, but through His Spirit He creates spiritual life in us so that we can believe. Faith is the gift of God. It’s part of the whole salvation package that...

In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.

I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes– marvelous these royal robes!These robes are authority that can decree that trouble, sin of my...

La mu’axsa, but I think I’ll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?

The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a...

Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me strength to bear whatsoever Thou dost send, And let not fear overrule me. I trust Thy...

You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

it’s hard to tell whether ornot hell’s flames are gettingcloser

Il n’y a que l’amour pour sauver ce monde. Pourquoi j’aurais honte d’aimer?

[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

Fame without Jesus Christ is a shame hereafter .

Clearly it is God’s will to place me in such a predicament,” declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, “So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.

On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, and that salvation may be granted to me despite the frozen...

She hadn’t just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid – she’d started to brew her own.

And I held her, this girl who had saved me and continued to save me every day.

I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we only arrive there after as series of chioces. The bible claims that...

His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfillment in...

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.

Death is only final when you know you’re not going to see them again!

One may be “outside” the church, but one can never be “outside” of God’s love.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Nothingness…there in this placewhere nothingness takesbut for the glimmera steadfast shimmerall would be consumed…

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.

He chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe; lest we should say that we first chose Him” (Augustine). Faith receives the electing love of God not as if it had already...

We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him,...

God doesn’t stop crisis from coming, as He didn’t stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone.