All Quotes By Tag: Salvation
“Libraries hold more than books – they also contain salvation.”
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“They are stealing our sheep”. So one Jesuit described the tide of change sweeping Christianity in Latin America, long a Catholic bastion. Who are “they”? The new evangelical, Pentecostalist, and charismatic Protestant churches that have sprouted across the region in the last thirty years….. But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren’t sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.”
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“If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus’ example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look.”
“I’ve still got the bible, I stole that night from my revival. From some hotel on 35.”
“As surely as I feel love and need for food and water, I feel love and need for God. But these feelings have nothing to do with Supramundane Males planning torments for those who don’t abide by neocon “moral values.” I hold the evangelical truth of our situation to be that contemporary politicized fundamentalists, including first and foremost those aimed at Empire and Armageddon, need us non-fundamentalists, mystics, ecosystem activists, unprogrammable artists, agnostic humanitarians, incorrigible writers, truth-telling musicians, incorruptible scientists, organic gardeners, slow food farmers, gay restaurateurs, wilderness visionaries, pagan preachers of sustainability, compassion-driven entrepreneurs, heartbroken Muslims, grief-stricken children, loving believers, loving disbelievers, peace-marching millions, and the One who loves us all in such a huge way that it is not going too far to say: they need us for their salvation.”
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“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”
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“With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.”
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“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”
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“When God wins your heart, He has won it forever.”
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“Basically, that’s why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”
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“God’s grace is the gift of salvation.”
“Salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has bought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as He did for us. That’s the reason He told us to go tell the Good News; go tell sinners they’re reconciled to God.”
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“Whoever shall call on God, shall be saved.”
“Until God draws you to himself, can you come close to Him.”