Salvation Doctrine Quotes

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

There is no salvation for those outside the Church.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

Since Christendom comprehends only a small part of the globe, should not everyone who believes in God be saved by his own religion?

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.

The Bible makes it clear that Adam's sin affected the whole universe. This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam's sin, but because they are not Adam's descendants, they can't have salvation.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.