Quotes About Redemption

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

women are proof than man was just God's first draft.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.

Ishmael Beah's memoir of his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone.

The Painted Veil

The promise of the Christian faith is that this life presages a glorious new life that will make present pains seem negligible:

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.

The poverty of Christ was without a singular vow, and without beggary.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy - I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the love of God.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

You'll quite remove the ancient curse.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Now that my ladder's gone,I must lie down where all the ladders start,In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.

En apariencia abandonado y solo, escucho el león rugir: y toda puerta se cierra menos una, y esa es la puerta de la misericordia

India in the 1840s and 1850s was slowly filling with pious British Evangelicals who wanted not just to rule and administer India, but also to redeem and improve it.