Quotes About Redemption

Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you. It's His hold on you.

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.