Quotes About Redemption

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.

God subjected the whole creation to frustration by putting the Curse not only on mankind but also on the earth (Genesis 3:17). Why? Because human beings and the earth are inseparably linked. And as together we fell, together we shall rise.

Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it's about God giving to you.

But doesn't Shengjing promise to wipe away all tears?" "That promise is for after he defeats sin and ends suffering and sets up his Kingdom. That time has not yet come.

God's people are not looking for deliverance from Earth, but deliverance on Earth. That's exactly what we will find after our bodily resurrection.

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

So Heaven is not our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is resolved, the only place we will go is our true default destination . . . Hell.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

Dragoste gratuit? nu exist?; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este c? pre?ul ei a fost pl?tit deja.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.

When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer heat with air-conditioning—when we have overcome all these and much more besides, then there will abide two things with which we must cope: the evil in our hearts and death.

Thankfully, our disappointments matter to God, and He has a way of taking even some of the bitterest moments we go through and making them into something of great significance in our life. It's hard to understand it at the time. Not one of us wants that thread when it is being woven in. Not one of us says, 'I can hardly wait to see where this is going to fit.' We all say at that moment, 'This is not the pattern I want.

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; it is spiritual.

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

We became less than what we were meant to be.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night. Thine eye diffused a quickening ray; I woke — the dungeon flamed with light! My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

El amor de Dios nos muestra que solo él puede ser el puente que una esa separación entre él y nosotros para que podamos ver este mundo a través del Calvario. Si no lo entiendes de esta manera, nunca lo harás, y todos los hilos de la obra maestra que él está tejiendo en tu vida se deshilacharán del diseño.