Saving Faith Quotes

#1. The old saying is true: "We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone." If you belong to God, you will persevere in doing good. You will not be perfect, but you will persevere with patience.

James Johnston

#2. Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.

Michael S. Horton

#3. Now is the accepted time." If thou "believest on Him who justifieth the ungodly thou art saved." Oh! may the Holy Spirit give thee saving faith in Him who receives the vilest.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. True saving faith involves "the whole personality": the mind is instructed, the emotions are stirred, and the will then acts in obedience to God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#5. Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

Billy Graham

#6. Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

John Stott

#7. We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#8. If saving faith is present, it can't help but produce fruit. Good works don't save a person, but they do show that his or her faith is genuine.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#9. The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Martin Luther

#10. The glory of Christ in the gospel is the decisive ground of saving faith because saving faith is the receiving of Christ as infinitely glorious and supremely valuable.

John Piper

#11. If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Believe these truths as you believe any other statements, for the difference between ordinary faith and saving faith lies mainly in the subjects in which it is placed.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

#14. We reject the teaching that regeneration is the result of saving faith.

Anonymous

#15. It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

John Piper

#16. No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Blaise Pascal

#17. God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.

Thomas Boston

#19. 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

#20. Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

A.W. Tozer

#21. Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

J.I. Packer

#22. My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

Tyler Perry

#23. if He closes a door, you may never know what He's saving you from or see the better things He has stored up for you.

Jamie Larbi

#24. Faith is in the gaze of a soul. Faith is seeing soul's eyes upon a saving God.

Ann Voskamp

#25. Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

#26. Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

Peter Block

#27. Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly

#28. The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

J.I. Packer

#29. At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Whittaker Chambers

#30. Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?

Lindsay Faith Rech

#31. We can be assured of salvation and feel that assurance aright only as we keep our eyes off ourselves and our performance and fix our gaze on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of true saving and sanctifying faith.

Douglas Bond

#32. The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Austin Farrer

#34. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

#35. So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.

Peter Kreeft

#36. How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God's will and another is just cultural differences? What if it's all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

Trevor D. Richardson

#37. Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would God want from me, if there is a God? The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in all of us.

Justin Cronin

#38. I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Clarence Darrow

#39. By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

Gabriel Fackre