Johann Arndt Quotes

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

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.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.