Quotes About Redemption

He who disdained not to assume us unto Himself, did not disdain to take our place and speak our words, in order that we might speak His words.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

Its not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

Above all, the divine love is salvific: It seeks the lost, suffers with the afflicted, and redeems the fallen.

of "entire *sanctification," that is, that a Christian's life of purity takes place in two stages: through initial sanctification at *conversion and through a second event of sanctification later in the Christian's life (often called "the second blessing" or "entire sanctification") during which the Christian is freed from the bonds of the sinful nature, even though the believer continues to live in an imperfect body and an imperfect world.

God will actually reframe our history and memories to us as he heals us.

Nothing is out of reach for Jesus.

Our hope doesn't rest on our finally getting it together. Our hope rests in Jesus.

Tausend Jahre kaufen nicht zurück, was eine einzige Sekunde versäumt.

Only those with whom life had dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love.

Jesus entered as he did, where he did, doing what he did because God needed us to finally comprehend the truth: God is not a sky king who heads an empire. God is the love that gives itself away for the sake of more love.

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.