1,250 Quotes About Salvation

The water that your soul needs will not be at the bottom of any well that you will ever dig.

Now the soul says, ‘Lord, where shall I go? You have the words of eternal life.’ [John 6: 68] Here he centers, here he settles. It is the entrance of heaven to him; he sees his interest in God.

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

Everything that God does is nothing that He needs done, for He is eternally complete. Yet, He is never still and He is forever working. Therefore, I am left with both the conviction and the evidence that God’s agenda is nothing other than that which is incomplete in you and I.

What if the empty tomb was simply God saying that the miracle that happened there is just a foretaste of the miracles that can happen within us? And if that’s the case, nothing within us is really dead. Rather, it’s just a bunch of stuff waiting its turn to stand up and breathe again.

Rule #1 - Put God at the center of everything. Rule #2 – Repeat. Rule #3 – Repeat after repeating.

Death precariously hangs a few scant inches over our heads, having been methodically placed there one piece at a time by a lifetime of choices that we have made. And until we understand the gravity of what hangs but a breath away, we will not understand why Jesus hung on a cross to sweep it all away.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.