1,250 Quotes About Salvation

You are your own freedom - you are your own peace - you are your own salvation.

Trying to have faith in ourselvesIs like looking for our glassesAnd finding themUpon our head.When we seek blessings, salvation, graceWe make the mistakeOf looking all around usInstead of going inside ourselves to findEverything we need.

I will either die at the hands of myself or live in the hands of God.

What are we actually saving ourselves from, other than the failed notion that we can save ourselves?

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

...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 old foundation, stone by stone,Cementing sad experience with grace,Fashions a stronger temple of His own.

Worldly life increases with artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others), and worldly life decreases with dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, not to give pain to others, giving happiness to others). There is liberation with shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, The Pure Soul).

One should learn to know one’s own Self. And if one does not know that, then he should know dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others). If one does not know dharmadhyan, then he lost his human birth again. And one will not attain Moksha (liberation) if one does not know ‘that’ (i.e. to know one’s Self).

Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.