Quotes About Redemption

a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness.

God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.

When God looks upon my life graph, he sees not jagged swerves toward good and bad but rather a steady line of good: the goodness of God's Son captured in a moment of time and applied for all eternity.

You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.

God does some of God's best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.

Dr. Paul Tournier expresses this pattern in the language of psychiatry: "God blots out conscious guilt, but He brings to consciousness repressed guilt.

On the one hand God passionately loved the people he had made; on the other hand, God had a terrible urge to destroy the evil that enslaved them. On the cross, God resolved that inner conflict, for there God's Son absorbed the destructive force and transformed it into love.

grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less—no amount of racism or pride or pornography or adultery or even murder. Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

In a letter to his brother, C. S. Lewis mentioned that he prayed every night for the people he was most tempted to hate, with Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini heading the list. In another letter he wrote that as he prayed for them, he meditated on how his own cruelty might have blossomed into something like theirs. He remembered that Christ died for them as much as for him, and that he himself was not "so different from these ghastly creatures.

grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

Don't know if a dog - or a man, either - ever gets to the place where he can forget as well as forgive, but enough miracles have come my way lately to make me think that this could happen, too.

The rape and dismemberment of my immortal soul-though I deserved all that and more, I found that I could no longer bear the weight.

Living in freedom means learning how to walk again—learning how to walk God's way for a change—because, listen, you can be 100 percent saved and still spend the majority of your time in Egypt. Unbelievers aren't the only ones who contribute to Egypt's overcrowding.

The glory our God receives, and will eternally receive, from having saved our souls doesn't come from all the good things we do for Him. His glory comes from creating people of purity and spiritual passion who once did things like that. Like we've done. Like you've done. Like I've done.

If I were your enemy, I'd constantly remind you of your past mistakes and poor choices. I'd want to keep you burdened by shame and guilt, in hopes that you'll feel incapacitated by your many failings and see no point in even trying again. I'd work to convince you that you've had your chance and blown it—that your God may be able to forgive some people for some things, but not you . . . not for this.

It was for freedom that Christ set us free" (Gal. 5:1).

it is never too late to make things right.

Strategy 5—Against Your Confidence He constantly reminds you of your past mistakes and bad choices, hoping to convince you that you're under God's judgment rather than under the blood (Rev. 12:10).

God (Isa. 59:1–2).

God hasn't given up on us, my friend. Aren't you glad? Thank the Lord, for a second chance.

Treachery can't be forgiven. Michael could have forgiven it, but people never forgive themselves and so they would always be dangerous.

Jesus is literally the exegesis of God.

One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!