Quotes About Redemption

By preserving a person named Daniel, God was preserving a nation called Israel in order to send a Savior named Jesus to save persons like us and ten thousand times ten thousand more of the same. Daniel's willingness to risk everything to make that redeeming God powerfully known expresses how great and precious is the incomparable grace of God toward those who will trust in him.

Our dependence on Christ's justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.

Our efforts before God will never earn us entry into his kingdom, or obligate him to love us.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

prayer." Praying in Jesus' name is automatically a confession of our unworthiness and a proclamation of his worthiness.

The afflictions we experience do not evidence the absence of divine love, because God uses even this pain for higher purposes in our behalf. The proof is in the cross itself.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

Repentance is not a turning from one category of works to another; rather it is a turning from human works entirely to God.

I know after all the awful places you've had to go, it's hard to imagine how good heaven can be, but I've seen it, and no words can describe it...It's worth it all. We've both lost a parent, we've been beaten and bruised, and we've done through hell together. I even died. And I can tell you...giving up everything to serve God is worth it all.

Red will be made white Darkness shall become light Faith will be made sight Squire shall become knight

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Jesus had many lovers of the kingdom of heaven but precious few bearers of his cross. Father Barry read on: … Interrogate

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including -- or perhaps especially -- the failures.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.

been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was rediscovered in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Source: Wikipedia