Sola Fide Quotes

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

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

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

I believe in the five solas. One hundred percent believe in the five solas. And I am - to those of you who know about this - I'm a monergist [someone that believes in the doctrine that says spiritual renewal is exclusively the activity of the Holy Spirit].

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

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.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

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

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!