Quotes About Redemption

We're living an experiment," he finally yelled back at me as he pocketed his cell phone. "We might not be able to fix the economy. We might not be able to make everyone as rich as Americans. But we can design the city to give people dignity, to make them feel rich. The city can make them happier." There it was, the declaration I have seen bring tears to so many eyes with its promise of urban revolution and redemption.

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.

There is nothing free except the Grace of God.

The sovereignty of God is absolute; yet it is never exercised in condemning men who ought to be saved, but rather, it has resulted in salvation of men who deserved to be lost.

Reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for all for the salvation of men." —LIFE TOGETHER

Jesus Christ is for his brethren by standing in their place." —CHRISTOLOGY

When a man encounters Christ, everything that Christ is and has is made the property of this man." —ETHICS

Thus the very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably salutary, because it so thoroughly teaches me that neither of us can live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one word and deed which really binds us together—the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ.

God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

What motivated me [to write] was that my disgrace was not the end of the story—or even the main part of the story. The real story was that Christ had reached down to me, even in my disgrace and shame, and revealed Himself as the One who forgives and makes new. Born Again is the story of a broken man transformed by the love and power of Jesus Christ—who continues to transform me every passing day.

And after my imprisonment I could look back and

Christians who understand biblical truth and have the courage to live it out can indeed redeem a culture, or even create one. This is the challenge facing all of us in the new millennium.

If the redeemed sing, presumably someone must write the songs.

Matthew," she murmured, her voice breaking. "How can I save you?

I won't say it's going to be easy for me, Madeline. I've lived too long in darkness and shadows, but if you're willing to stick by me, to give me a chance, I'll give you whatever you wish." "My wish has already come true," she said, smiling into his upturned face. "It was you, after all." -Blaine and Madeline

And perhaps it is not too beautiful a thing to believe in this redeemed world, that, as the babe turns to his mother though he has no power to say her name, as the flowers turn to the sun, so the hearts of the children turn to their Saviour and God with unconscious delight and trust. Nursery

To bring the human race, family by family, child by child, out of the savage and inhuman desolation where He is not, into the light and warmth and comfort of the presence of God, is, no doubt, the chief thing we have to do in the world.

The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.

The first "young man" symbolizes "saving life and losing it," the second "losing life to save it." At this stage in the story, however, without knowing the end, the episode of the young man represents a mystery. All we know is that everything has gone sour.