You are a lost man if you hope to escape drowning on any other plank but Jesus Christ.
Joseph Alleine (1634-68)
 
The Lord does not wish the sinner to get safety only. He wishes him to get into a paradise of joy and peace? You are not to think He takes us out of the deep waters and makes us stand shivering on the shore.
Andrew Bonar (1810-92)
 
Get Christ and go to heaven.
John Bunyan (1628-88)
 
The first thing that strikes us in view of the answer of our Lord is the terrible arrogance and impudence, not to say blasphemous impertinence, which we all display when we discuss this subject. How coolly and glibly do we ask these questions and argue about them! How heedless and thoughtless we really are! The idea of such a question being asked in the smoke-room or tap-room, or in the light and frivolous atmosphere of a debating society! This matter of salvation being made use of merely interest and amuse a number of people for a few hours, or for the purpose of making clever jokes and remarks and scoring futile debating points! How lightly and thoughtless do we habitually face this question! We have argued about it and discussed it scores of times, but we have remained exactly as we were; we have expressed our views on salvation times without number but still we have not obtained it.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
 
I will tell you what a dear friend of mine once said before dying. She desired all the servants to be brought in, and she said very solemnly: ?There?s nothing but Christ between me and weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.?
Robert Murray M?Cheyne (1813-34)
 
The simple truth of the Bible is, that Christ hath suffered and died in the stead of sinners ? as a common person in their stead; and every man that is a sinner hath a right to come. Christ is quite sufficient for all, and I would prove it by this argument: if he was sufficient for one sinner, then he must be sufficient for all. The great difficulty with God (I speak as a man) was, not how to admit many sinners into his favour, but how to admit one sinner into his favour. If that difficulty has been got over in Jesus Christ, then the whole difficulty has been got over. If one sinner clothed in Christ may come unto God, then all sinners may. If one sinner may have peace with God, and God be yet just and glorious, then every sinner may have peace with him. If Christ was enough for Abel, then he is enough for all that come after. If one dying thief may look to him and be saved, so may every dying thief. If one trembling jailer may believe on Jesus, and rejoice believing, so may every other trembling sinner.
Robert Murray M?Cheyne (1813-34)
 
Salvation is not merely an objective reality to be wondered at, a theological dictum to be debated about, a philosophical theory to be speculated about ? not even merely a marvellous subject to be preached about. It is a divine reality entering the human being to transform his fundamental disposition, cleanse him from sin and unrighteousness, redeem him from bondage and corruption, impart to him the nature of God, recreate in him the image of Christ, make him a child of God, a member of the household of God, and qualify him through the gift of the Holy Spirit to live a life of true discipleship in the midst of a world almost destitute of the consciousness of God and eternity.
George W. Peters (20th century)
 
Salvation is not a detached gift of God in some gracious and miraculous way bestowed upon man. Salvation is Christ, and to experience salvation is to experience Christ. Salvation is person-centred. It is Christ-centred. It is not the experience of something, but of Someone. The Bible does not teach that Christ has salvation and dispenses it like a benevolent master giving gifts to his servants who obey him. Christ is our salvation and gives Himself to us as our salvation? He is our life; He is our strength; He is our peace; He is our joy; He is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
George W. Peters (20th century)
 
God proportions His power to the nature of His work. The casting out of demons is ascribed to His ?finger? (Luke 11:20); His delivering of Israel from Egypt to His ?hand? (Exodus 13:9); but when the Lord saves a sinner it is His holy arm? which gets Him the victory (Psalm 98:1).
Arthur Pink (1886-1952)
 
The will of the Father is originating cause of our salvation, the worth of the Son?s redemption, its meritorious cause, and the work of the Spirit, its effectual cause.
Arthur Pink (1886-1952)
 
What is commenced at regeneration is continued throughout our sanctification and completed only at our glorification.
Arthur Pink (1886-1952)
 
Christ died in our place so that sinners might feast on the holiness of God without being destroyed.
John Piper (b. 1947)
 
The special office of our Lord is to save his people from their sins. He saves them from the guilt of sin by washing them in his atoning blood. He saves them from the dominion of sin by putting in their hearts the sanctifying Spirit. He saves them from the presence of sin when he takes them out of this world to rest with him. He will save them from all the consequences of sin when he shall give them a glorious body at the last day. They are saved from sin for evermore.
J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)
 
Here was the masterpiece of divine wisdom, to contrive a way to happiness between the sin of man and the justice of God.
Thomas Watson (1620-86)
 
There are many ways to hell; men may go thither which way their fancy leads them; but there is only way one direct road to heaven, viz., faith and holiness.
Thomas Watson (1620-86)
 
We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted together his glory and our good. We glorify him by promoting our own salvation. It is a glory to God to have multitudes of converts; now, his design of free grace takes, and God has the glory of his mercy; so that, while we are endeavouring our salvation, we are honouring God. What an encouragement is this to the service of God, to think, while I am hearing and praying, I am glorifying God; while I am furthering my own glory in heaven, I am increasing God?s glory. Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, You will honour and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as much gold for yourself as you can carry away? So, for God to say, Go to the ordinances, get as much grace as you can, dig out as much salvation as you can; and the more happiness you have, the more I shall count myself glorified.
Thomas Watson (1620-86)