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Quotes About Redemption

I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative power of their decision to treat me like a human being, that was so huge, that anytime somebody wants me to talk about that I feel like I absolutely want to do that.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
~ John Piper
Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
~ Charles Spurgeon
My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.
~ Judith Viorst
Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.
~ Ellen G. White
Forgiveness is enshrined in the Lord's prayer - forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. These scriptures point to the power of forgiveness not only as a way to absolve transgressions but to ensure that the person extending forgiveness will be forgiven of theirs.
~ Anthea Butler
People are more than the worst thing they have done in their lives.
~ Sister Helen Prejean
Hate the sin, but love the sinner. We must pray for our enemies as well as our friends and the ones we love. Because if we pray for them, they may repent, seek God's face and turn from their wicked ways.
~ Skip Coryell
Dear Father, deliver us from evil. Deliver us from hatred. Heal our wounds, heal our souls. Give us inner peace in a world of dead and dying. Help us to love, even as they lay dying. Amen.
~ Skip Coryell
The liabilities were easy: He was locked in a trunk, bound and gagged; he had a nuclear bomb for a head rest, and there was a dead body lying beside him. The assets were a little more difficult. And then it hit him. If nothing occurred without God's approval, and he left nothing to chance, then everything that happened to him was part of God's larger plan. He thought about it. If all that were true, and God loved His creation, then . . . his liabilities were also his assets.
~ Skip Coryell
God wants to take you and deliver you from your sin, and put you close to Him."-Skip Heitzig
~ Skip Heitzig
The blood of Jesus Christ and His mighty name are an antidote to all the subtle seeds of unbelief that Satan would sow in your minds.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Thought for today: We are saved, called with a holy calling-called to be saints, holy, pure, Godlike, sons with power.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
There is power to overcome everything in the world through the name of Jesus.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Es necesario para nosotros tener el Espíritu Santo para que nos revele la Palabra y nos traiga a la vida que es Cristo. Nunca podremos entender plenamente las maravillas de esta redención hasta que seamos llenos del Espíritu Santo. Estaba una vez en una reunión por
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Time and time again, I have seen people whose hearts have been hardened by self-hatred and guilt find, through a simple act of asking for pardon, unsuspected strength and peace.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God; that they were, by nature, rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God, through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me; but one thing I knew very well—I was wretched, and had no means of making myself otherwise. Moreover, I knew that I could pray for light.
~ Solomon Northup
dim perception of a Saviour who had died even for such as her.
~ Solomon Northup
Repentance is accepted remorse.
~ Sophie Swetchine
How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free! How is that, Father? [...] And that other sin – that other sin – that sin of love – That's all I ever knew of Heaven – heaven on earth! How can that be – a sin – a mortal sin – all I know of heaven?
~ Sophie Treadwell
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?
~ Sorin Cerin
Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.
~ Spencer W. Kimball