Quotes About Redemption

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.