Quotes About Redemption

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.