The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.