Quotes About Redemption

God not only saves us from something, He also saves us for something.

Beating God to the punch is about reaching out for what you could have never earned, achieved, or deserved.

Hebrews 10:4 says, 'For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." This lets us know that all of the sacrifices that have been made never took away sins. Although God valued them-in that their sacrifice was a sign of obedience-they didn't act as an eternal propitiation for our sins.

Jesus is our redemption, the purchase of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. Our ransom isn't from Satan, but from the wrath of God (Rom. 5:9).

There was much more wrapped up in that piece of fruit in the garden than just a bad decision. With sin, there always is. We talk ourselves into thinking that sin is just a bad choice; it's not. It's much deeper than that for us, just as it was for Adam.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for me. 'These words struck through my heart, and I knew that God for Christ's sake had forgiven me all my sins.' - Susanna Wesley

He differentiated between Christianity as a religion like all the others—which attempt but fail to make an ethical way for man to climb to heaven of his own accord—and following Christ, who demands everything, including our very lives.

Bonhoeffer was simply saying that if we wished truly to live, we must be prepared to die. And this was not bad news at all, but rather was the very best of good news imaginable. In fact it is called the good news or the gospel, and it is simply that Jesus has purchased for us a passage to eternal life, something so outrageous and unbelievable that most people really don't believe it and therefore ignore it.

Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither law nor cheap grace can do that.

Bonhoeffer was constantly trying to correct the idea of a false choice between God and humanity, or heaven and earth. God wanted to redeem humanity and to redeem this earth, not to abolish them. As

We can pray only in Jesus Christ, with whom we shall also be heard.

Whitefield came to a realization that would have far-reaching effects. He saw that the Bible didn't teach that we must work harder at becoming perfect and holy, but that we must instead throw ourselves on God's mercy. Moral perfection wasn't the answer: Jesus was the answer. Jesus had been morally perfect and we weren't supposed to save ourselves—we were supposed to ask him to save us.

If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

Christ in us gives us over to death so that he can live within us. Thus our inner dying grows to meet that death from without. Christians receive their own death in this way, and in this way our physical death very truly becomes not the end but rather the fulfillment of our life with Jesus Christ.

He who through faith is righteous shall live." Here I felt that I was altogether born again and

God is free not from human beings but for them.

He saw that the Bible didn't teach that we must work harder at becoming perfect and holy, but that we must instead throw ourselves on God's mercy. Moral perfection wasn't the answer: Jesus was the answer. Jesus had been morally perfect and we weren't supposed to save ourselves—we were supposed to ask him to save us.

In fact, we are not sick and in need of healing. We are dead and in need of resurrecting.

in his mercy, had allowed Wilberforce to see himself as he truly was, and it was crushing. But Wilberforce knew God didn't mean to end there. On the other side of the worst of who he was, if he dared face that worst, was a God who would help him overcome his faults and do great things, the very things for which he had created him. It was not too late.

But since logic dictates that God could have saved the Israelites from Pharaoh's army in an infinity of ways, and in ways infinitely subtler than parting the Red Sea, it is obvious that he didn't part the Red Sea to save the Israelites as much as he parted the Red Sea to communicate himself to the Israelites.

Anyone who perseveres in his sin receives judgement. The church cannot loose the penitent from sin without arresting and binding the impenitent in sin.

I remembered a joke I'd once heard, that if you play a country song backward, you get back your girlfriend, your dog is no longer dead, and your brother is released from prison.