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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.