Quotes about Redemption
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.
— Billy Graham
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
— Robert Barron
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
— John Owen
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
— NT Wright
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
— John Calvin
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And now without redemption all mankind must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
— John Milton
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
— Max Lucado
Every call of Christ leads into death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
— CS Lewis
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
— AW Tozer