Quotes About Redemption

When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3–4).

give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

There would be no communion between him and us if he did not first come to us with his grace.

First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.

The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal. Therefore

Christ, therefore,   died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works. Since

Ps. 126:1). God has done a stupendous and incredible work in us who bear Christ's name.

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But

in the school of Christ, men are not merely taught about justification; they are made just by what he has done for them. And

It follows that we pray rightly only when we come to God trusting in the Mediator.

Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.

Let us know,   therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for   us but death.

Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power. It

For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.

the apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ. Since

all worship is unclean and wicked unless purified by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.

But Scripture praises everywhere his pure and unmixed mercy, which does away with all merit.

Likewise, what grounds He gives us to consider His mercy! When He does not stop showing His mercy to miserable sinners, leading them back to Him by His more than paternal mercy until their obstinacy is broken down by His benefits.

we should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence

And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.