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  • Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

    -Aeschylus
    Septem contra Thebas, l.224^5 (translated by C M Dawson).

  • There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

    -John Lawrence Ashbery
      In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

  • Leave all things behind, and come unto me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from the bondage of sins. Fear no more.

    -Bhagavad Gita
    Ch.18, v.66.

  •    The L is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the L is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDPsalms 27:1.

  • Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 62:1^2.

  • Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah12:3.

  • Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the L hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The L hath made bare his holyarm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDIsaiah 52:9^10.

  • Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke 2:29^32.

  • Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Acts of the  Apostles 4:12.

  • For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now istheaccepted time; behold, now isthe dayof salvation.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians 6:2.

  • Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Ephesians 6:11^17.

  • Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Philippians 2:12.

  • Very God of very God,Begotten, not made,Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Nicene Creed.

  • Ocome, let ussing untothe Lord; let usheartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 95:1^7.

  • Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Articles of Religion, VI  Of the Sufficiency of the holy Scriptures for Salvation.

  • I should say that Rossetti was a manwithout principles at all, who earnestlydesiredtofindsalvationalong thelines of least resistance.

    - Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer Ford
      Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Memories and Impressions.

  • God has instituted in our time holy wars, so that the order of knights and the crowd running in their wake, who following the example of the ancient pagans have been engaged in slaughtering one another, might find a new way of gaining salvation.

    -Guibert of Nogent   fl.c.1097
    c.1097  Gesta Dei per Francos, in Recueil des historiens de croisades occidentaux, edited by L'Acade  mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1847^95), vol.4, p.124.

  • The hope of science isthe perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a fewand the damnation of almost everybody.

    - Robert Ingersoll
      The Age of Reason, Mar.

  • It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. Ayouthful passion for abstracted devotion should not be encouraged.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

  • In cruce salus, in cruce vita. In the cross is salvation, in the cross is life.

    - StThomas a' Kempis
    c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.2, ch.12, section 2.

  • Hors de Paris, il n'y a point de salut pour les honne"  tes gens. Outside of Paris, there is no salvation for gentlemen.

    -Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molie'  re
      Les pre  cieuses ridicules, sc.9.

  • Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

    - Sir Walter Raleigh
      The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage.

  • Shouting isnot a substitute for thinking and reason isnot the subversion but the salvation of freedom.

    - Adlai E(wing) Stevenson
      Lecture at Harvard,17 Mar.

  • Esta gente e   boa e de boa simplicidade. E imprimir-se-a ligeiramente neles cualquer cunho, que les quiserem dar. E logo lhes, Nosso Senhor, deu bons corpos e bons rostos, como a bons homens, e Ele que nos por aqui trouxe, creio que na‹  o foi sem causa. E portanto,Vossa Alteza, pois tanto deseja acrescentar na santa fe   cato l ica, deve entender em sua salva c° a‹  o. These people are good and simple.You can stamp on them any design that you wish to give them. And Our Lord gave them good bodies and good faces, and I think that it was his plan that we arrive here. Therefore,Your Majesty, since you wish so much to increase Catholic faith, you must provide for their salvation.

    - Pero Vaz de Caminha
    Carta (published1817).

  • He did not, even in his extremity, quite abandon his faith in the magic of official forms. In bumf lay salvation.

    - Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
      Officers and Gentlemen, bk.2, ch.5.

  • Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.

    - Charles Wesley
      'Love Divine', collected in Hymns for those that seek†Redemption.

  • Ifelt my heart strangely warmed.I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given methat hehad taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

    -John Wesley
      Journal entry, 24 May.

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