Quotes About Justification By Faith

#1. Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

Shai Linne

#2. No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

John Wesley

#3. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Martin Luther

#4. The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

Paul Washer

#5. Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Charles Simeon

#6. It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

Adolph Saphir

#7. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.

Timothy George

#8. There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.

Adoniram Judson

#9. Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

John Calvin

#10. At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. There was not one way of salvation in Israel and another way in the new covenant (Christian) community. Justification is by faith now; justification was by faith back then. The meritorious ground of salvation in the Old Testament was the merit of Christ, not the merit of bulls and goats.

R.C. Sproul

#12. Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Jerry Saltz

#13. Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.

Ellen G. White

#15. Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.

R.C. Sproul

#16. To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

John Calvin

#17. Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification ... faith and repentance themselves ... are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.

Herman Bavinck

#18. The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins

#19. The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

Jenn Thoman

#20. In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it is only by an act of simple faith that he accepts the testimony of sense-experience.

Paul Brunton

#21. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#22. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.

Gloria Furman

#23. Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

Martin Luther

#24. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Martin Luther

#25. The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Libba Bray

#26. Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

Richard Dawkins

#27. The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#28. We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

John Flavel

#29. Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#30. THE believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by-and-by, but now.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.

John R.W. Stott

#32. We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God.

Robin Bertram

#33. Human sin and God's grace are the two poles of Lutheran spirituality. To be sure, these are intrinsic to all of Christianity, but in Lutheranism they are both heightened. They are resolved in the principle by which, it is said, the church stands or falls: justification by grace through faith.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#34. Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

Ellen G. White

#35. We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

John Flavel

#36. Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.

Bryant McGill

#37. Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Dawkins