Quotes About Redemption

Grace can and does have a history.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had never attended church, was never raised in a religious home, never had any insight of God or who he was until I was 18 years old.

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.