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.

You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not...

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts…It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity...

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some...

I dont believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamour and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And...

God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God’s Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14

only’s” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of Christianity, they do not have to lead a person out of the Catholic Church. . . . They can...

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As...

What we call the Lord’s prayer is actually the Disciple’s Prayer because It says “Forgive us our trespasses” and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

The Fathers intent desire is that none would ‘perish’. The promise God has given us is one of ‘liberation’- Freedom. Being set free “from” captivity and reconciled “to” your Father. Intimacy with Jesus garners son-ship...

There was a warrior once who foughtAgainst man’s subtlest, mightiest foe,And more than valiant deeds he wroughtT’ effect th’ enslaver’s overthrow.But ah! how dread was his campaign,Forc’d in the wilderness to stray,Lone, hungry, stung with...

I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His suffering and death lose all value in their eyes, ‘because it must have been so easy for him.’...

The hope that we have in Christ is so gloriously wonderful, why would we ever keep it to ourselves? When we refuse to communicate the Gospel there is nothing more cruel or selfish in all...

Arminius, appealing to Lactantius, held that: ‘To recommend faith to others, we must make it the subject of persuasion, and not of compulsion’. He insisted that the true religion from Christ does not deteriorate into...

Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of the working of His sin-pardoning love. They are no credit to us, and we have nothing...

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and...

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

J E S U S means Justify Eternally after being Sanctified with the Understanding of the Scripture .

… no person can be his own saviour … An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to...

I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn’t get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order...

In her career, she’d closed multi-million dollar deals without a hint of nerves. Now she needed a jumbo-sized bottle of antacids just to get out of her car. Or a double shot of whiskey. God,...

You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.