Top 54 Self Salvation Quotes
#1. Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology.
Michael S. Horton
#2. How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?
Sorin Cerin
#3. Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
John Ortberg
#4. Whether it is Paul defending Judaism, Augustine pursing philosophical learnedness, Luther attempting complete ritual self-abasement, each finally realized he had given himself to secular forms of self-salvation and to a world filled with human achievement but empty of God.
William Dean
#5. In short, Christmas is God's answer to the slavery of self-salvation. Jesus came to liberate us from the pressure of having to fix ourselves, find ourselves, and free ourselves.
Tullian Tchividjian
#6. 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
#7. Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.
Beth Moore
#8. Self realization of strengths and weaknesses is the first step towards salvation.
Mayank S. Sengar
#9. Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?
Yasmina Khadra
#10. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.
Richard D. Phillips
#11. Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.
Maybe. I don't know. But I was careful never to give myself away.
Jay Asher
#12. Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh; we have been self-programmed to lose consciousness of the soul.
Felix Wantang
#13. To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
Brennan Manning
#15. Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.
Henry Blackaby
#17. The way to salvation begins with self realization
Stephan Attia
#18. Since our origin is noble, our end may be glorious. But redemption must originate from beyond the royal ruins of the self. It must issue from God above. What, then, is this salvation that God has offered us?
Douglas Groothuis
#19. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Thomas Merton
#20. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.
Louis Sullivan
#21. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
Timothy Keller
#22. Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before - it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.
Kevin Hazzard
#23. For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#24. There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.
(Against Fortunatus)
Augustine Of Hippo
#26. The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Henry Allen Ironside
#28. Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.
Billy Graham
#29. Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.
Ali Akbar Khan
#30. Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson
#31. No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
John Flavel
#32. Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.
Balroop Singh
#33. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#34. Music had been his undoing, he told the boy in ironic self-deprecation. His bane and his salvation. It had gotten him through tough times that would have otherwise been unbearable and it had made everything else he had gone at twice as hard.
William Gay
#36. Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Dan Simmons
#37. The key method of self-deception about your salvation is to avoid self-examination about the state of your life. The
Gregory Forster
#38. Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. A shaking of heads, perhaps even an evil laugh, must go through our old, smart, experienced, self-assured world, when it hears the call of salvation of believing Christians: "For a child has been born for us, a son given to us."5 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#40. Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.
Arthur W. Pink
#41. To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.
Brigham Young
#42. Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.
Ann Voskamp
#43. I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer
#45. Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
Margaret Thatcher
#46. [M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#47. We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Thomas Merton
#48. Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.
Roshan Sharma
#50. Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
Jeff Cooper
#51. Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.
Mason Cooley
#52. I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.
George MacDonald
#53. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#54. Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army. Self-interested behavior, such as deploying troops to serve the nation, is considered boorish in Manhattan salons.
Ann Coulter
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