Thomas Erskine Quotes

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

Ultimately, the soul will receive either judgment or mercy through Christ.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

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

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

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.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

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.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.

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

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

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.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

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

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

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.