Quotes About Redemption

By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.

Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37).

No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

May you know his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

God requires something of us. We must confess our spiritual poverty, renounce our sins, and turn by faith to His Son, Jesus Christ. When we do that, we are born again. He gives us a new nature. He puts a little bit of heaven down in our souls.

The blood of Christ "purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation" (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

Someone who visited the Billy Graham Library noticed all the crosses displayed and said to her host, "Where is Jesus? Why isn't He on the cross?" Her host smiled and said, "We do not worship a crucifix. Jesus died on the cross, but He did not stay on the cross. . . . He lives!

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.

God is love" means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished—but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene, the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.

Even in the darkest moment, before death snatches man's last breath, God is willing to save a lost soul.

True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.

Sin—plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall—is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label.

We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that "whosoever will" may come and receive His Son. But this period of grace will not go on indefinitely. We are even now living on borrowed time.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God!

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone said, "Salvation is free, but not cheap." It cost Jesus His life.

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace—just as I am.