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Quotes About Redemption

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
~ William Faulkner
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
~ William Franklin Billy Graham
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
~ William Gurnall
It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send
~ William Gurnall
Till he be merciful to pardon our sins through Christ, he cannot bless or look kindly on us sinners.
~ William Gurnall
If ever you would have a blessed issue of this evil day, so as to stand in judgement before the great God, rest not till thou hast got into a covenant-relation with Christ.
~ William Gurnall
It is more honour to take one soul alive out of the devil's clutches, than to leave many slain upon the field. Erasmus
~ William Gurnall
Peccatum est deicidium—sin is deicide. As
~ William Gurnall
As the bloody Jews and Roman soldiers exercised their cruelty on every part almost of Christ's body, crowning his head with thorns, goring his side with a spear, and fastening his hands and feet with nails; so the despairing sinner deals with the whole name of God.
~ William Gurnall
Thou art by nature a covenant-servant to sin and Satan.
~ William Gurnall
Gospel comfort may be known by the vessel it is poured into, which is a broken heart.
~ William Gurnall
The hound, when he hath lost the scent, hunts backward and so recovers it, and pursues his game with louder cry than ever. Thus, Christian, when thy hope is at a loss for the life to come, and thou questionest thy salvation in another world, then look backward and see what God hath already done for thee in this world.
~ William Gurnall
God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.
~ William Gurnall
In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul.
~ William Gurnall
In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul. That day thou wert born again, an heir to heaven was born.
~ William Gurnall
The heart itself is no safe sanctuary for sin to sit in. The word will take it thence—as Joab from the horns of the altar—to slay it.
~ William Gurnall
The Lord Jesus lays down his heart's blood to redeem souls out of the hand of sin and Satan, that they may be free to serve God, without fear, in holiness; and the loose Christian, if I may call him so, 'denies the Lord that bought him,' and delivers up himself basely unto his old bondage, from which Christ had ransomed him with so great a sum. Whose
~ William Gurnall
There is no mountain so heavy as the guilt of the least sin is to an awakened conscience.
~ William Gurnall
Every sin thou committest is a new line that the devil draws on thy soul.
~ William Gurnall
You see when a soul comes over from Satan's quarters unto Christ, and has but once the experience of that sweetness which is in his service, there is no getting him back to his old drudgery; as
~ William Gurnall
When the Son made thee free, thou becamest free indeed.
~ William Gurnall
Thou art a dead man if thou think to answer thy sin with proportionable sorrow; thou wilt soon be above thy depth, and quackle[12] thyself with thy own tears, but never get over the least sin thou committedst.
~ William Gurnall
The Lord Jesus lays down his heart's blood to redeem souls out of the hand of sin and Satan, that they may be free to serve God, without fear, in holiness; and the loose Christian, if I may call him so, 'denies the Lord that bought him,' and delivers up himself basely unto his old bondage, from which Christ had ransomed him with so great a sum. Whose heart doth not tremble at such horrid ingratitude?
~ William Gurnall
Truth cannot itself be bound, nor will it dwell in a soul that lies bound in sin's prison; and therefore when once truth and the soul are agreed, or rather Christ and the soul, who are brought together by 'truth,' then the poor creature may lift up his head with joy, for his redemption and jail-delivery from this spiritual bondage draws nigh; yea, the day is come, the key is in the lock already to let him out.
~ William Gurnall