 The Apostle put to those at Corinth this question: "Do you not know that God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor. 3:16). Paul seemed to be surprised at their ignorance of such a sure fact. He viewed the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as the foremost consequence of salvation, so how could they miss it? Author: Watchman Nee |
| What a sinner needs is life, not some sublime thought. A believer needs whatever can nourish his spiritual life, not mere Bible knowledge. If all we communicate are excellent sermonic divisions, wonderful parables, transcendent abstractions, clever words, or logical arguments, we are but supplying additional thoughts to the people's minds, arousing their emotions once again, or activating their will to make one more decision. A sinner needs to have his spirit resurrected, not to be able to argue better, shed profuse tears, or make a firmer resolve. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy. Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace. Author: John Owen |
| Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
| Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Author: Thomas Aquinas |
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| I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body. Author: William Booth |
| And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood. Author: William Tyndale |
| The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith. Author: Neil T. Anderson |
| The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more." Author: Horatius Bonar |
| In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works. Author: A.W. Pink |
| The cross stands for definite realities which embody and express the leading characteristics of Christ's agony. Author: A.W. Pink |
