Quotes About Redemption

The cross places us under a far greater obligation to love than the exodus ever could.

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved -- in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved -- in virtue of what God can do.

The known plane is God's creation, fallen out of its union with Him, and therefore the world of the flesh needing redemption, the world of men, and of time, and of things -- our world. This known plane is intersected by another plane that is unknown -- the world of the Father, of the Primal Creation, and of the final Redemption. The relation between us and God, between this world and His world presses for recognition, but the line of intersection is not self-evident.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.

The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.