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Salvation

noun

(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil. Synonym: redemption.

A means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness. "They turned to individualism as their salvation"

The state of being saved or preserved from harm.

Saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation.

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"Salvation" Quotes from Famous Books

... there is no doubt that to a great extent we owed our salvation to those terrible ants. Had it not been for them and the incessant torture they inflicted on us when we fell down upon the ground, we should have perhaps lain there and never got ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... entire system of religion is based upon that belief. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation of a fortunate few. It is hard to conceive how the human mind can give assent to such terrible ideas, or how any sane man can read the bible and still believe in the doctrine ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... of his is the salvation of him,' Rockney said, to account for the Captain's shrewdness. 'She manages him cleverly. He knows the length of his line. She's a woman of principle, and barring the marriage, good sense too. His wife keeps him quiet, or we should be hearing of him. Forbery 's a more dangerous man. There's no ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... filled with holy zeal. It is inspiring to hear their eloquent confessions of guilt and wrongdoing, their trembling protestations of contrition. Several of them are of long experience and considerable proficiency in public speaking. One was formerly a major in the Salvation Army. Another spent twenty years in the Dunkard ministry, finally retiring to devote himself to lecturing on the New Thought. A third was a Y. M. C. A. secretary in Iowa. A fourth was the first man to lift his voice for sex hygiene west of the ...

— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken

... never let fall a complaint, although nearly dying. This was the last time that her blood gave testimony to the reality of her union with the sufferings of him who has delivered himself up wholly and entirely for our salvation. Most of the phenomena of the ecstatic life which are shown us in the lives and writings of Saints Bridget, Gertrude, Mechtilde, Hildegarde, Catherine of Sienna, Catherine of Genoa, Catherine of Bologna, Colomba da Rieti, Lidwina of Schiedam, ...

— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich

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