Quotes About Being Saved

#1. Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

Paul Hawken

#2. Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

Juan Bosch

#3. Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.

Robyn Schneider

#4. It's possible to do "Jesusy" stuff without knowing Jesus. It's possible to do good as part of some religious self-salvation project and not out of the joy of being saved.

Jared C. Wilson

#5. Being saved' doesn't just mean, as it does for many today, 'going to heaven when they die'. It means 'knowing God's rescuing power, the power revealed in Jesus, which anticipates, in the present, God's final great act of deliverance'.

N. T. Wright

#6. There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.

Ava Dellaira

#7. God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Martin Luther

#8. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Cor. 2:15-16).

David Ruis

#9. Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Charles Spurgeon

#10. This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

Pope Francis

#12. A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Timothy Keller

#13. Anyone capable of love is capable of being saved.

Caroline Forbes

#14. Xander stood at the end of the bed, hands on hips, the jacket she'd helped him sew thrown open, a gold-threaded waistcoat glimmering underneath. He was the Regency hero today, but she didn't feel like being saved.

Danika Stone

#15. There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are ideals of form for if we aren't going to be made to fear for them? All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.

Robert Frost

#16. The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#17. And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being saved. It's a promise and a memory of the future and a book of better stories.

Katja Millay

#18. Repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.

Thomas Watson

#19. How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one speaks of a thief being saved.

Samuel Beckett

#20. She's changing everything. People that are supposed to die are being saved and those that should live are being killed. She is single-handedly destroying this timeline.

Mark Tufo

#21. A Christian is one who is invited ... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!

Pope Francis

#22. No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

Heber J. Grant

#23. Some folks are happier not being saved.

Lisa Kleypas

#24. I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

Stanley Hauerwas

#25. They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit ... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved. Chief Pontiac, American Indian Chieftain

George Washington

#26. Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

#27. In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.

Alphonsus Liguori

#28. When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well?

Diana Peterfreund

#29. Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

Richard Baxter

#30. As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin's penalty. One day we will be saved from sin's presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin's power.

Alistair Begg

#31. My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong.

Melina Marchetta

#32. They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

Terry McMillan

#33. was talking about being saved and going to heaven. I was there with all my friends, and I wanted so much to go to heaven and

Linda Powers-Daniel

#34. People think they're being saved from a Bolshevik revolution," Frunze said. "The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.

Ken Follett

#35. Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.

Mary Rakow

#36. 18For the word of the cross is b folly to c those who are perishing, but to us d who are being saved it is e the power of God. 19For it is written,

Anonymous

#37. If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

Richard Baxter

#38. Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.

C. JoyBell C.

#39. Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Amy Harmon

#40. 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.

Anonymous

#41. Being saved by discipleship is not a human possibility, but for God all things are possible.

Rodney Combs

#42. If the social order and the processes of commodification are not transformed in relation to the body through salvation, then salvation becomes hyperlocalized to a single relationship: God and the one being saved.64

Willie James Jennings

#43. If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

Vance Havner

#44. They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

Koushun Takami

#45. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Piero Scaruffi

#46. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

#47. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E.W. Howe

#48. The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

Sathya Sai Baba

#49. How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

Jeff Sessions

#50. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

Oswald Chambers

#51. The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).

N. T. Wright

#52. Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Criss Jami

#53. Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.

Anthony Liccione

#54. You saved me, you moron!" she yelled. "You're being deliberately stupid and dense about this! My God, you ask a lot of yourself!"
He touched his forehead to hers. "I can't help it," he blurted. "I love you.

Shannon McKenna

#55. The touch of his fingers sent her heart to dancing, and her mind flitted to being held in his arms after he had saved her

Melanie Dickerson

#56. You may think it's a wonderful thing to be saved by Lord Frith in his power. How many rabbits has that happened to, I wonder? But I tell you, it was far more frightening than being chased by the Efrafans.

Richard Adams

#57. Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

Christopher Bram

#58. When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

#59. When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Anne Lamott

#60. Being a monster hasn't saved anyone. She choked on her sob, gasping for air.
He pulled her into his arms, and she finally let herself be hugged.

Debra Anastasia

#61. the gospel of repentance is a constant reminder that the most righteous are still being tested and may yet fall, and that the most wicked are not yet beyond redemption and may still be saved."14

Marvin R. VanDam

#62. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Amy Poehler

#63. We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

Charles Spurgeon

#64. I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

T Bone Burnett

#65. Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Lady Gaga

#66. I can see you being set free, saved, healed, blessed - in the name of Jesus Christ!

T. B. Joshua

#67. He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.

Jim Dodge

#68. I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Zubin Mehta

#69. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well

Ernest Hemingway,

#70. I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

Amy Tan

#71. The state of no being is a divine-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

Thom Yorke

#73. I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace ...

Pamela Des Barres

#74. He'd thwarted a killer, saved the park, saved thousands from being chewed to pieces, and did it all through other people's strength. Maybe Aliyah would die, maybe he would never have existed, but...

...it was worth it.

Ferrett Steinmetz

#75. Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Barry Manilow

#76. Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Alan Dean Foster

#77. As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away.

Clare Vanderpool

#78. There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

Roland Smith

#79. I believe in fate because Spencer is in my life. He's saved me more times than he knows, just by being there.

Ella Fox

#80. The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Pema Chodron

#81. The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

Peter King

#82. I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven

The Cab

#83. Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

Lewis Thomas

#84. There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

William Barclay

#85. But our God is a God of grace. If we desire to be like him, we need to go beyond being people who are saved by grace to be people who are characterized by grace.

John H. Walton

#86. The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

J.R. Rim

#87. Which epitaph would you choose for your grave-stone: "He made lots of money." or "He saved the Earth"? And don't think I'm being sarcastic, because for once, I'm not. We're all going to die. What will be your legacy? Smaug-loads of money? or Saving the Earth? It's your choice.

Steve Bivans

#88. O Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I have nothing to fear; for the fact of being thy client is a possession of a certainty of salvation which God grants only to those whom He intends to save.

John Of Damascus

#89. They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

Bill Maher

#90. Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Amy Tan

#92. Trust me."
This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly
untrustworthy about him ... .
He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice
time.

Kresley Cole

#93. The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.

Charlie Human

#94. Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life ... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

Ryan McGinley

#95. I don't know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

Paul Craig Roberts

#96. In four hundred years, I've never dreamed. Vampires don't. But after I saved you on the trol ey that night, you invaded my sleep. In my dreams, we're the same. We can touch, kiss, love. And every dream ends with us ... being together forever.

J.A. London

#97. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

Dean Koontz

#98. Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

Mike Pence

#99. My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Dorothy Allison

#100. Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Nancy Mitford