Quotes About Redemption

As our "great high priest," Jesus is our bridge, the only way to God.

But His resurrection ensures that the story of Jesus is just beginning—the story continues!

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? Romans 8:31–32, THE MESSAGE

At the center of the universe is a relationship, that is the most fundamental truth I know. At the center of the universe is a community. It is out and for that relationship you and I were created and redeemed.

God has vindicated Jesus.

Easter is God's 'yes' to Jesus against the powers who killed him" (2006, 205; italics in original).

The central idea of Christianity is the claim that Jesus is the Anointed One sent from heaven.

Yo soy el que por amor a mí mismo borra tus transgresiones y no se acuerda más de tus pecados.

Qué Dios hay como tú, que perdone la maldad y pase por alto el delito del remanente de su pueblo? No siempre estarás airado, porque tu mayor placer es amar. Vuelve a compadecerte de nosotros. Pon tu pie sobre nuestras maldades y arroja al fondo del mar todos nuestros pecados. MIQUEAS 7:18-19 Tan

Oh Dios, ten compasión de mí, que soy pecador!".

And me? I'm a mess. I'm nothing and have nothing: make something of me. You can do it; you've got what it takes— but God, don't put it off. (Ps. 40:17)

In his general audience on April 22, 1998, Pope John Paul II stated, "We must not forget that for Christians the 'eschaton,' that is, the final event, is to be understood not only as a future goal, but as a reality which has already begun with the historical coming of Christ.

God loves to forgive.

In Jesus we hear God saying to us, "What you cannot do for yourself, I myself will do. Your sin stands between us, and you cannot remove it, so I will do it for you. My blood will cleanse your sins, and I will remember them no more. Nothing will stand between us. I will rise from the dead so that you can live. My love is too strong for death to conquer. Once alive, I will invite you to die and rise with me. Eternal life is now available. It is in my Son.

You should not let a single person in the world, whatever sin that person may have committed, come before your eyes and depart without having found mercy with you. And should that person not ask for mercy from you, then you must ask it of him. And were that person to come to you a thousand times, continue to love them so as to lead them back to the right path. Always have compassion, for all of us have sinned. —Saint Francis of Assisi

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

we cannot cure our own brokenness nor can we manage it. Unfortunately, the longer we spend around the church the more we tend to ourselves less as sinners and more as people who are "getting it together" avoiding the deep transformation that Christ can only do in us!

Asked to describe the Holy One, Jesus told the story of the father whose bond with his son, no matter the son's unworthiness, was unbreakable.

the expectation that he will come again—in fulfillment of all human longing at the end of time. "Parousia" is the technical name for this expectation; "eschatology

separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

Canadian comedian, Emo Phillips, said he used to pray every night for a bike until he realised that the Lord doesn't always work that way, so he stole one and then prayed for forgiveness.

Everyone forgets and or ignores the simple fact that 99.9% of people that God used in the bible were broken people, Convicts, Criminals etc. and not the high and mighty regular church attendees

Not all Prodigals are downtrodden or live in the pig pen, quite the opposite for one third of all prodigals are very successful in life and their only hang up is the big brother not allowing them to come home