Quotes About Redemption

Eternal life is not a gift from God, eternal life is the gift of God.

The great wonder of Jesus Christ's salvation is that He changes our heredity. He does not change human nature—He changes its source, and thereby its motives as well.

The Cross is God exhibiting His nature. It is the gate through which any and every individual can enter into oneness with God. But it is not a gate we pass right through; it is one where we abide in the life that is found there.

In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin as the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, and the explanation of the grief and sorrow in life.

God forgives sin only because of the death of Christ. God could forgive people in no other way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted as Savior because of His death.

Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.

God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make.

The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much.

Repentance does not cause a sense of sin—it causes a sense of inexpressible unworthiness. When I repent, I realize that I am absolutely helpless

The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

He forgives sin, and it is the death of Jesus Christ alone that enables the divine nature to forgive and to remain true to itself in doing so. It is shallow nonsense to say that God forgives us because He is love.

Forgiveness doesn't merely mean that I am saved from hell and have been made ready for heaven (no one would accept forgiveness on that level). Forgiveness means that I am forgiven into a newly created relationship which identifies me with God in Christ. The miracle of redemption is that God turns me, the unholy one, into the standard of Himself, the Holy One. He does this by putting into me a new nature, the nature of Jesus Christ.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

A man who has faith is somebody who can be saved.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

I'm not proud of everything I've done, I'm not proud of all the drugs and booze, or biting the heads off a few animals. But I was young. I didn't know what the fuck I was thinking. Still it could be worse. I could be Sting.

Grace is unmerited favor. It is reward given to those who deserve judgment. Grace means that Christ takes the punishment we deserve, so that we can get the reward that Christ deserves.

those who preach the gospel to themselves are increasingly hopeful. That is because the gospel culminates in a new heaven and a new earth—a future utopia that God has promised to bring to pass. It is about "Paradise restored." The future for every Christian is an eternity with no crying, nor mourning, nor pain.