Quotes About Redemption

How good it is to love live things, even when what they've done is terrible, how much we each want to be the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose into our own wide open without a single harness of sin to stop us.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

For too long, we've called unbelievers to 'invite Jesus into your life.' Jesus doesn't want to be in your life. Your life's a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn't boring or purposeless or static. It's wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

The profound gift of Christmas is our salvation and forgiveness. The babe born in Bethlehem would give his life to save us from our sin.

The cross of Christ points us to the brokenness of humankind. But it also demonstrates the magnitude of God's love for us and offers peace with God and salvation through Jesus Christ. The salvation that you and I have received cost Jesus his life. It cost Mary her son.

Our Advent journey, preparing our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, takes us to the cross, where we remember that the Child whose birth we celebrate would be tortured and killed, and that on that cross he gave his life that we might receive life. He bore our sins that

be free. God is the God of the second chance. And Jesus came to save us from our sins and from ourselves. What wondrous love is this!

we are reminded that God is often most profoundly at work in those times when we're confused, broken, or wounded.

grace has the power to change our lives.

God's love, mercy, and kindness are offered to us all. He showed us grace.

Christmas is about God's grace—the kindness, love, forgiveness, and blessings being given to us though we do not deserve them.

God does not bring unjust suffering upon God's children. But God will, however, force such things to serve God's good purposes. God will walk with us through the fires and the floodwaters. And God promises that "the present suffering is nothing compared to the coming glory that is going to be revealed to us

God will bring good from evil, and not even death can separate us from his love.

Sin alienates us from God, but on the cross God was seeking to help us see the

seriousness of our sin, the costliness of our forgiveness, and the magnitude of his love.

He is so committed to his guilt. He needs Michael's death to be his fault. It's what keeps his brother alive for him—that connection. As though, as long as he still has a confession to make, Michael will be forced one day to return in order to hear it. Without that prospect, there is only an ending.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

Try to praise the mutilated world.

Thus, it is the task of man to redeem these shattered fragments, or sparks, to find in them their higher significance, and to restore them to their divine origin.

Waiting for salvation is, therefore, not a passive state of being; it is rather the active doing of every person whose every thought and deed can contribute to the redemption of the universe.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.