Thomas Secker Quotes

Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

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.

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 gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

I win not because of my own efforts or my own goodness, but rather through the grace, love, and mercy of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He died so that I might win this game of life and live with Him forever.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

You and I are players, God's our coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there's only one way to Him and that's through Jesus Christ.

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.