Quotes About Redemption

If Kaleb Krychek had been able to bond with another human being...perhaps Aden has sold his Arrows short. Perhaps salvation could come for even the most broken among them

Abe wanted to grab on to that hope, use it to feed his hunger to fix the worst mistake of his life, but he knew the hope didn't belong to him. Sarah had told him to go. He had no right to challenge her decision, to fight to be allowed back in. He'd given up that right the day he'd lied to protect himself. The day he'd told her he didn't love her.

Heroes, I've learned, don't always wear white. Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows.

For by grace you have been saved . . . —Ephesians 2:8

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. —John 1:16

every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering.

I asked Mama was it a sin to do what I done, and she said no, it was the same as David slaying Goliath, it was only to save Ulyssa and the others, not because of meanness that I did it. I would do it again, too. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed.

I wish the Lord would just knock me over with kindness and goodness and simple purity, because I don't seem to be getting the knack of it on my own.

We find hope in the ancestry of Jesus that no matter what we've done or where we come from, we too can be included in Jesus' family. Jesus does not look for people who are perfect and have never failed or made mistakes to be in his family. Instead, he is drawn toward people who recognize their failures and see their need for him.

Jesus did not die on the cross to give you a certain number of days of health on this earth but to fit you, body and soul, for eternity in a new heaven and a new earth.

Many people think a Christian is someone who believes in God and tries to be good, or someone who lives by the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount (as if anyone could!). But what we and our children must understand is that a Christian is a person who recognizes that he or she is a sinner deserving nothing less than the terrifying judgment of God and who takes refuge only in the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

God has not left us on our own. Even though we have declared war on him deep in our hearts, he has declared peace with us. This friendship is made possible not because Jesus was born, but because Jesus would die.

THE LORD REVEALED to the prophet Habakkuk that he was about to do a purifying work among his people by raising up the Babylonians to take them into captivity.

Sometimes we give our children the idea that the Christian life is all about what they must do for God. But at the heart of what it means to be a Christian is the willingness to accept the cleansing touch of Jesus so he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).

Lord, give ________ the ability to recognize you. Don't let ________ reject you. Give ________ the faith to believe, the will to accept, and the right to become a child of God. We long for so much more for ________ than going through this life physically alive but spiritually dead. Call ________ to life so that ________ will never die.

What began in a cradle made of wood culminated on a cross made of wood.

When God sent His only Son, Jesus, to this earth to bear your sin and mine on the cross, He put a price tag on us—He declared the value of our soul to be greater than the value of the whole world. Whose opinion are you going to accept? Believing a lie will put you in bondage. Believing the Truth will set you free.

El amor inescrutable de Dios por nosotros lo lleva a atraernos de vuelta a Él cuando nos apartamos.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.

Jesus is the only One who can expose and cleanse my sin and heal me from the inside out.

if God used the "way of suffering" in Jesus' life to accomplish His will, then it's reasonable to expect that He will use our trials and our suffering to accomplish His will in our lives also.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

It's Jesus, not we ourselves, who gives us righteousness and redemption. So being unlikable doesn't mean we aren't saved.