On Salvation

By salvation I mean, not barely, according to the vulgar notion, deliverance from hell, or going to heaven; but present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of the divine nature; the renewal of our souls after the image of God, in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy and truth.

John Wesley, "A Further Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion"

From the Rose Garden of Mystery...

'That man a liege of Christ I hold to be,
Who from all ties and trammels is set free.
To whom the Holy God is fane and shrine,
Whose home the Spirit, ageless and divine.
Such men of Christ's pure Spirit have received,
Who was Himself of Holy Ghost conceived.
Thou also hast from God the soul inmost,
Which is the sign in thee of Holy Ghost.
Whoever earth's entanglements decries,
Enters the Holy Presence in the skies.
Whoever on angelic pureness bent,
Like Christ, ascends the starry firmainent.
So Jesus said, who now is heaven's light,
'The Father's Voice is calling from the height.
Dear son, go thou to thy Father's heart!
Others have gone; remain not thou apart!'

--Mahmoud Shabistary (d. 1320), In Gulshan-l-Raz (Rose Garden of Mystery), tr. Norman Sharp

(quoted from H. B. Dehqani-Tafti)