Quotes About Redemption

El Dios que actúa en el antiguo testamento es el mismo Dios que se hace carne en el Nuevo, con el fin de consumar en el mundo una obra de salvación definitiva.

Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life everlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, and through agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it, and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away?

Romans has been called the "systematic theology" of the New Testament, and Paul began by exploring the total depravity of humankind in 1:18–3:20.

Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth

There is a prison," Alfred began grimly, "in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from that darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.

Remember: King Kong died for your sins.

The law does not save a man, but it does show him why he needs to be saved and how he is to walk after he is saved.

8Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough 9to live forever and never see the grave.

The road to Easter goes through Good Friday. The road to new life goes through the death of the old. The road to resurrection goes through crucifixion. Jesus calls us to walk that road, the road he walked.

Satan causes us to wallow in unnamed guilt, but God's conviction is focused and meant to lead us to restoration.

Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  (Philippians 3:20) Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."  (John 18:36)

He has spent a lifetime in the vicinity of trauma, usually inflicting it. He is known by some as Evan Smoak. To a few, he is known as Orphan X.

he didn't drink to numb his senses. He drank to try to cleanse himself from the inside out. He pressed

God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

by whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.

Father George Paulsen said to me, "Most of us have been in the same boat. Most of us find that the sins of our days are the sins of our lives. And the worst thing we can do is let our shame or our pride keep us from asking forgiveness every time we must." And then he said, "The fact that Jesus will always forgive you finally becomes the prod. One day, you realize that you are tired of this confession, tired of this sin; on that day, you'll decide you truly want it gone.

Wir alle haben uns wenigstens einmal die Frage gestellt: Wenn wir die Möglichkeit hätten, das Rad der Zeit zurückzudrehen, würden wir unser Leben anders leben? Und wenn wir unser Leben noch einmal leben dürften, welche Fehler würden wir korrigieren? Welchen Schmerz, welches Schuldgefühl und welches Bedauern würden wir uns ersparen? Würden wir es wagen, unserem Leben einen neuen Sinn zu geben? Um was zu werden? Um wohin zu gehen? Und mit wem?

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