Quotes About Redemption

It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

God's] love for us was displayed most clearly through the cross of Christ. There our Lord stretched out His bloodstained hands to say, "I love you this much!

Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too.

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make Him love us less.

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.

When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.

You are fooling yourself if you have read the Bible from cover to cover and you do not care more for the lost and hurting and broken than you did before you read it.

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.

34 ¡Oh Jerusalén, Jerusalén, que matas a los profetas, y apedreas a los que a ti son enviados! ¿Cuántas veces quise recoger a tus hijos, a la manera que el ave cubre su nidada debajo de sus alas, y tú no has querido? 35 ¡Pueblo ingrato! He aquí que su morada va a quedar desierta. Y les declaro que ya no me verán más, hasta que llegue el día en que digan: Bendito sea el que viene en nombre del Señor. 14

Crucifícalo, crucifícalo.

Señor, si tú quieres, puedes limpiarme. 3 Y Jesús extendiendo la mano, lo tocó, diciendo: Quiero. Queda limpio. Y al instante quedó curado

Jerusalén: He aquí que a ti vendrá tu Rey el Justo, el Salvador: Él vendrá pobre, y montado en un asna y su pollino.

36 Persuádase pues certísimamente toda la casa de Israel, que Dios ha constituido Señor y Cristo a este mismo Jesús, al cual ustedes han crucificado. 37

19 Y yo por amor de ellos me santifico a mí mismo; con el fin de que ellos sean santificados en la verdad. 20

16 Que amó tanto Dios al mundo, que no paró hasta dar a su Hijo unigénito, a fin de que todos los que creen en él, no perezcan, sino que vivan vida eterna.