Quotes About Redemption

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.

Revival begins here: with a profound awareness of God's absolute holiness, our absolute sinfulness, and our complete inability to bridge the divide that separates us.

God wants sin out of your life because it's the only thing that keeps you from experiencing the torrential downpour of blessing He wants to rain upon you.

I'm your saviour; I've come here to destroy you." —Guy Boy Man

Jesus is the most famous victim of capital punishment.

Be grateful for your sins. They are carriers of grace.

People are more than the worst thing they've ever done in their lives.

Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

Jesus said, "If anyone enters by me, he will be saved" (John 10:9). That includes you, and it refers to something that can take place now. If you have not yet trusted Jesus, You can trust Him now. Today is the day of salvation.

I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself, I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help, Then you came along, and saw what state I was in, You picked me up, when I was down, Showed me how to live again.

A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus)

Their message wasn't, 'One day you will go up to join Jesus in heaven,' but, 'One day Jesus will come back to earth.' Their message wasn't about humanity escaping to be with Jesus, but about Jesus coming back to earth to be with humanity.

The Betrayer of Christ stared back at Erin. "By my word, I sent Christ from this world. By my actions, I will bring him back. That is the purpose of my curse.

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

Maybe such brave souls were the world's true messiahs. Maybe we didn't need to wait idly by for heavenly salvation. Maybe we were always our best hope.

Leopold did not have to touch it to know to whom it belonged. It was as familiar as his own palm. It was his rosary, lost when he fell from the train. He closed his eyes. Look how far I have fallen, my Lord . . . He remembered Bernard so bowed by sorrow, so stricken by grief. Over me . . . a traitor.

ICHTHYS, was an acronym for Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60).

Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness...

No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.

Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no -- hang on -- this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?