Quotes About Redemption

Be quick to repent, quick to forgive, and quick to believe God. Forgive

He that hath the Son hath life" (1 John 5:12).

If your spirit were healed, you would still have the same spirit, too, except it would just be healed. But no, blessed be God, Second Corinthians 5:17 tells us, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become NEW." Not half of them—all of them. Every bit of them.

Salvation belongs to the sinner. Jesus already has bought the salvation of the worst sinner, just as He did for us. That's the reason He told us to go tell the Good News; go tell sinners they're reconciled to God.

There's no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There's just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus, and that cures the problem.

Here is a prayer about being Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve: God, I thank you for making my first parents, Adam and Eve, and for making me like them. Thank you that I can be like you—creative and caring. Help me to love all other people and all the creatures you made on this earth. At the same time, I know I can be like Adam and Eve in their shame—selfish and hurtful. When I do that, please forgive me for Jesus's sake, and help me to get close to you.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

Os que conhecem a verdadeira alegria em meio ao sofrimento são aqueles que reconhecem que, nesta vida, nosso sofrimento nunca será tão grande ou tão sério quanto nossos pecados.

Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la cruz»29.

I would like to acknowledge my Father in heaven, Who is the LORD God Almighty! The Most High God! The Great I Am! All praise, honor, and glory unto Him, And His beloved Son, the LORD Jesus Christ; Who is my Savior, my Redeemer, and my Friend! And it is only because of Him, That I am alive and living! Praise His holy name, Forever and ever! Amen

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself from the transformed substance as the panacea, the medicina catholica, just as it may to the imperfect bodies, the base or "sick" metals, etc. His attention is not directed to his own salvation through God's grace, but to the liberation of God from the darkness of matter.

Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: "Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come.

He who shall deliver me from the waters and bring me back to dry land, him will I bless with riches everlasting.

El Occidente cristiano considera que el hombre depende por entero de la gracia divina o, por lo menos, de la Iglesia, único instrumento terrenal de la redención sancionado por Dios. Oriente, por el contrario, insiste una y otra vez en afirmar que el ser humano es el único responsable de su evolución espiritual. Oriente, en efecto, cree que es posible redimirse a sí mismo.

It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of the individuals in need of redemption.

The redeeming symbol is a highway, a way upon which life can move forward without torment and compulsion.

abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds

What would release be? Being forgiven? No, never forgiven, never only forgiven.

Always remember that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.