Quotes About Redemption

I forgive ____ for ____, and whatever my feelings don't yet allow for the blood of Jesus will surely cover.

Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.

You're giving yourself too much credit, the only reason you have any grace (to give or receive) is through Christ.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I was not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

I may not like all the circumstances from my past, but I can see I survived. God was with me. God has used parts of what I walked through for good. God used some of it to protect me. God has certainly used it to teach me lessons and make me more empathetic for others walking through hard things. And God has used some of it to position me for where I needed to be next.

Sometimes hardship happens not because of what you've done but because of something God is doing.

Sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. (MSG)

Grace given when it feels least deserved is the only antidote for bitter rot. I

Brokenness is what must happen before God can put the pieces back together in the way He can shine through the best.

The gravity of living in a sin-soaked world will always try to hold us back from living loved.

The gravity of living in a sin-soaked world will always try to hold us back from living loved. But if we will remember to return often to our Instructor . . . our Creator . . . we will discover His loving hands still pulse to continue making us. Tweaking us. Molding us. Filling us. And daily completing the good work He began in us.

Lord God, I know You often work in ways I don't understand. There are parts of my story that feel incredibly hard to live in, but I trust You are making something beautiful even out of those parts of my life. In Jesus' name, amen.

Isaiah 43:18–19 reminds us, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

I've felt the heavy weight of regret and I don't want to return there.

What happened yesterday can't be changed, but it can be forgiven. That's your miracle in the mess. The voices of condemnation, shame, and rejection can come at you, but they don't have to reside in you. That's your miracle in the mess.

I forgive Art for betraying my trust. And whatever my feelings don't yet allow for, the blood of Jesus will surely cover.

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

It is crucial to have a hope and a power beyond ourselves. We are made for the same hope and power that raised Christ from the dead.

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.