Quotes About Redemption

God does not demand anything of us that God has not already done. In fact, God does not just ask us to do what God has done; God enables us to take that step.

Our delight is tickled as we see Christ concealed in the Old and revealed in the New.

When we read the Bible christologically, we are not smuggling Jesus in -- we are discovering him there, to our and others' delight. To say otherwise is to fail to read Paul or Luke well. It's to miss that all creation hollers praise. It is to leave the world ungraced, uncharged by the grandeur of God, with no witness to the One who creates and redeems it in Christ.

But Jesus is stubbornly, ferociously committed to his church. ... he'll be there. That's the batch of people through whom he is redeeming the world, impossible as that seems.

All is not lost. In fact, as ever with Augustine, God uses our sin to move us toward salvation. The theologian for whom the fall is a "happy fault," felix culpa, —since redemption will be sweeter after the fall than it would have been without it— argues that God can make use of our hard-headedness in teaching and being taught.

Ben Solo had sought to abandon everything he had been, even casting aside his name. But Luke sensed that Kylo Ren was just a shell around the same broken boy he had tried so hard to reach.

He's not burying you, Mallory. He's freeing you. Excavating you from a mountain of heroin and bringing you back to society. And look at you now!

None that speak of me know me, and when they do speak, they slander me; those who know me keep silent and in their silence do not defend me; thus, all speak ill of me until they meet me, but when they meet me they find rest, and they bring me salvation, for I never rest.

Without Christ, we're in Satan's grip. But because of His great love for us, Jesus shed His blood and died to redeem us from our sins, giving us full forgiveness. He rose

Only in the Christian life does surrender bring victory.

Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that—death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words. S

a total stranger one black day knocked living the hell out of me- who found forgiveness hard because my(as it happened)self he was -but now that fiend and i are such immortal friends the other's each

Even love aghast was love, and God could not destroy that.

The only hope we have is that we can pay off on our failures

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

Jesus' words, "Forgive them for they do not know what they do," also apply to yourself." ? Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

Now they are engaged in destroying nature and the planet that sustains them. Unbelievable but true. Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species. That's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is also a fact that the sanity is there underneath the madness. Healing and redemption are available right now.

The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.

On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.

So though it's true that sin itself is not good, to see our sin is good. Whereas sin leads down a burden-filled path, Jesus says, "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). Confession is essential to that life.

I have been taught by misery, he said. He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother's murder, could be made clean again.

Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross

She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now