Quotes About Redemption

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.

repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.

Daily bread may make us live comfortably but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: "they were pricked in their heart" (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

God so values his people that he will give kingdoms for their ransom (Isaiah 43:3); He put his best Jewel (Christ) in pawn for them (John 3:16).

Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.

God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

God may chastise, but He cannot hate.

This sin cleaves to us as a leprosy. This original pollution makes us guilty before the Lord; and even though we would never commit actual sin, it merits hell. The meditation of this would be a means to pull down our pride. -- Nay, even those who have grace have cause to walk humbly be- cause they have more corruption in them than grace: their dark side is broader than their light.

The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.

It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.

We should look upon sin in two looking-glasses—the glass of Christ's blood, and the glass of death.

igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28).

In heaven we will need no repentance, because we will have no sin. We will not need faith, because we will see God face to face. But love to God will abide forever. Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8).