Quotes About Redemption

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

We owe infinitely more to Christ than any brother can owe to us:

A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of ray companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven.

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Egli le rispose che il perdono non bastava a desiderarlo né chiederlo; ch'era una cosa troppo agevole e troppo naturale a chiunque sia trovato in colpa, e tema la punizione.

È un saggio che Dio vi dà per cattivarvi al suo servizio, per animarvi ad entrar risolutamente nella nuova vita in cui avrete tanto da disfare, tanto da riparare, tanto da piangere!

Coming back was part of the price

I want to apologise for my behaviour in my last year at United.

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I only came to give you a second chance.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...

Thereby He in effect declared that only such as were willing to be crucified with Him should be saved by His death; nay, that willingness to bear a cross was indispensable to the right understanding of the doctrine of salvation through Him. It is as if above the door of the school in which the mystery of redemption was to be taught, He had inscribed the legend: Let no man who is unwilling to deny himself, and take up his cross, enter here.

To be present with Him thereafter, men needed only to forsake their sins.

How vastly preferable a forgiveness which means a giving for, and costs the Forgiver sorrow, sweat, pain, blood, wounds, death--a forgiveness coming from a God who says in effect: "I will not, to save sinners, repeal the law which connects sin with death as its penalty; but I am willing for that end to become myself the law's victim.

He, in effect, says to us thereby: Be not afraid to regard my death as an act of the same kind as that of Mary: an act of pure, devoted love. Let the aroma of her ointment circulate about the neighborhood of my cross, and help you to discern the sweet savor of my sacrifice. Amid all your speculations and theories on the grand theme of redemption, take heed that ye fail not to see in my death my loving heart, and the loving heart of my Father, revealed..4

Stories about the most difficult things need to provide catharsis, or the reader will stop reading, or go mad.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

John does not say 'the sins'... But he says, 'the sin of the world,' as if the whole mass of human transgression was bound together, in one black and awful bundle, and laid upon the unshrinking shoulders of this better Atlas who can bear it all, and bear it all away. Your sin, and mine, and every man's, they were all laid upon Jesus Christ.