19 Metaphors for salvation

I invite those still in doubt to look at the manner in which public worship is established in the West: as soon as a few men have formed a settlement, a missionary comes to visit them; no one inquires about his denomination, for the Bible that he brings is the Bible of all, and the salvation, through Christ, which he proclaims, is the faith of all.

It was this promise which filled the converts to Christianity with joy, enthusiasm, and hope,yea, more than this, even boundless love that salvation was the gift of God through the self-sacrifice of Christ.

Salvation, you know, would be such a failure if there were.

With every true believer, the salvation of so precious a thing necessarily became the end of life, for Christianity taught that the soul might be lost.

Salvation is the right direction of all one's powers and activities.

"The salvation of our peopleof all peoplewhite and colored, is leadership.

The whole Book of Psalms, what is it but the blessed discovery that salvation is not merely in a place, or a state, not even in some 'beatific vision' after men die; but in the Lord Himself all day long in this world; that salvation is a life in God and with God?

It shows us that the salvation which the Lord Jesus came to bring is not only salvation at last, just escaping hell, but that it is salvation now, and salvation in everything Salvation does not only mean victory at last, but it is like a broad, shining shield, given to us in the midst of the battle, coming between us and the poisoned arrows and sharp sword-thrusts of the enemy.

After the stuff she undoubtedly got away with at midnight her only salvation's a light breakfast.

Thus it is that on every plane Christ is the Fulfilling of the Law, and that "Salvation" is not a silly shiboleth but the logical and vital process of our advance into the unfoldment of the next stage of the limitless capacities of our being.

"Twice saved," I said, "that the third salvation may be Christ's.

True for ourselves we still believe as fully as ever that the salvation of Jesus Christ is the one great panacea for all the sins and miseries of mankind.

" Salvation, peace, the glory of Zion!these are the words which Isaiah reiterates.

Can we doubt, that Providence would then bless their endeavours, and that salvation from their difficulties would be their portion in the end?

Existence is the primal evil: to get rid of ourselves is what we are to strive for; salvation is our disappearance out of life, our absorption in the ocean of unconsciousness.

Salvation is no easy matter,nothing to be got between sleeping and waking.

Nothing was clearer in his preaching, talking and writing, than that salvation was a present real experienced fact; a saving of the soul from the dominion of baser desires, and an inward union of it in love and homage to Christ, who, as the centre of all perfection, glory, and beauty, was the revelation of God to the heart.

Her only salvation was matrimony, and the good señora had focused her glances upon a certain relative a little over forty who needed this young girl to enliven his life of mature bachelorhood.

And he had an infinitely greater and deeper conviction of the reality of this divine love, which had rescued him, than Pelagius had, who felt that his salvation was the result of his own merits.

19 Metaphors for  salvation