Quotes About Redemption

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

I used to run the streets, my mom used to be crying all the time, coming to get me out of the police station all the time. Sports took me off the street.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided gradual healing and strength.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.