Quotes About Redemption

The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.

It's time to go, Vitaly says. You're telling me it's time to go? I've been waiting for you to wake up for an hour. As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine. Did you win your sword fight? Of course I won the fucking sword fight, Hiro says. I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world. And you wrote the software. Yeah. That, too, Hiro says.

This Land was made wrong. All of his efforts to make it right only spread the wrongness about in new ways. It is left to souls like me to decide what to do about it; and though I cannot see all the answers, I can guess that adding more wrongness will not help matters.

As they came out of a stand of big oaks and maples and broke out into windswept prairie near the brow of the hill, she saw the truth, which was that people had actually been nailed to those crosses and left to die.

There comes a time in a man's life when he looks around and realizes he's made a mess of everything. He's dug a hole for himself so deep that not only can't he get out, but he doesn't even know which way is up anymore.

Submitting to God requires us to deal with the sin in our lives. Sin

You are not who you are in Christ because of the things you have done; you are in Christ because of what He has done. He died and rose again so that you and I could live in the freedom of His love.

Christ has done everything necessary for us to be free. He wants us to be free so much that He gave Himself as a ransom to die on a cross. Then He gave Himself to us. We are one with Christ because our souls are in union with Him. There is nothing else God needs to do for us to be free.

Eternal life is not something you get when you physically die; it is something you get the moment you are born again! "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life" (1 John 5:12). Contrary to what Satan would like you to believe, he can't ever take away your eternal life because he can't take Jesus away from you, who promised never to leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).

I am no longer a product of my past, I am a product of the work of Christ on the cross.

We are not sinners in the hands of an angry God; we are saints who sin in the hands of a loving God.

Our new life in Christ is the basis for our true identity.

We shouldn't avoid sin because we fear eternal damnation. We should do so because we no longer want to live in bondage….

For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.

It's never too late to do the right thing.

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW