Quotes About Redemption

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.

If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.