Michael Servetus Quotes

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

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.

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water.

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

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.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

It was always very clear to me that God was sovereign in salvation.

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

One of the things that I just kind of became very enthusiastic about, and wanted to learn more about it, is how God saves.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

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

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.