Salvation Quotes - Page 22

• Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Destiny, Decisions You Make, Choices

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.93, Macmillan

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• For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Mean, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.

  Lionel Shriver

  Teacher, Jesus, Kids

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.332, Counterpoint Press

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• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Abuse

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

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• ‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Sincerity, Selling

  "Billy Graham: His Life and Influence". Book by David Aikman (p. 37), October 9, 2007.

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• The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

  Umberto Eco

  Waiting, Asking, Elements

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army." "Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army." "That's SO not the point!

  Richelle Mead

  Army, Rose, Pants

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

  Ivan Illich

  School, World Religions, Promise

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Destiny, What Matters

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• And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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• Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Might, Way

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.40, Zondervan

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• Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Night, Men, Long

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 5, 1882.

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• reading is the soul's salvation

  Jana Oliver

  Reading, Soul

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• People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  People, Matter, Sin

  William Faulkner (1964). “As I Lay Dying”, GoodBook Classics

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• The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Race, Missing

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.124, Broadway Books

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• All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.

  John Green

  Years, Forever, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Simple, Today

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.112, editionNEXT.com

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• In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Philosophical, Giving Love

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.30, Penguin

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• She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.

  Holly Black

  Crush, Heart, Epic

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• The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Light, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

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• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

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• Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Believe, Animal

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Men, Dancing, Singing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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