Quotes About Redemption

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.

eschatological thinking.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.

And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.

Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is not done for the sins of the reprobates, because he justly punisheth them to eternity upon themselves, Matt. v. 26.

You name the name of Christ, profess an interest in him, and expect salvation by him; which way will you apply yourselves unto him?

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This

Evangelical holiness is purchased for us by him, according to the tenor of the everlasting covenant, is promised unto us on his account, actually impetrated for us by his intercession, and communicated unto us by his Spirit.

We do it by love. Christ as crucified is the great object of our love, or should so be; for he is therein unto sinners "altogether lovely." Hence one of the ancients cried out, ? ???? ???? ??????????;—"My love is crucified, and why do I stay behind?" In the death of Christ do his love, his grace, his condescension, most gloriously shine forth.

God will justify us from our sins, but he will not justify the least sin in us: He is a God of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.

And thus the... valley became a garden again, and the inheritance, which had been lost by cruelty, was regained by love.

John Connolly novel, Every Dead Thing

You asked for help," Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. "That was before you knew me," Wilson said. I'm sorry about that. "I'm not going to tell you not to be sorry," Wilson said, "but I can understand wanting to get your body back.

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness.