Billy Graham Salvation Quotes

#1. Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone said, "Salvation is free, but not cheap." It cost Jesus His life.

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#2. Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.

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#3. The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].

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#4. Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you; it's His hold on you.

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#5. [God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price.

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#6. Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, "Yes!" He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because ... he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him.

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#7. Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.

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#8. Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything
including the Christian plan of salvation.

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#9. The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.

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#10. Believers in Christ owe nothing to God in payment for salvation ... but they do owe God a life of undivided devotion and service.

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#11. True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.

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#12. We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

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#13. If Satan can't keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.

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#14. Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

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#15. Salvation is free, but there is a price to pay in following Jesus. It is never said in Scripture that we can have "Christ and ... ".It is always "Christ or ... ". What is your "or"?

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#16. God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.

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#17. The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.

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#18. Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven's glory
and enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible.

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#19. God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation.

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#20. Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness - adoption into His family - fellowship with His people - freedom from the penalty of sin - liberation from the power of sin.

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#21. The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man's redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.

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#22. The blood of Christ justifies and saves us ... The word justification means just as if you had never sinned.

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#23. Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation.

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#24. Man stands on the brink of hell. The forces building up in our world are so overwhelming that man everywhere is beginning to cry out in desperation: What must I do to be saved?

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#25. Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.

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#26. Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

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#27. The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.

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#28. As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past.

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#29. Your salvation is a free gift, made possible only because God planned it ... Christ paid for it ... and the Holy Spirit assures you of it.

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#30. Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.

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