Quotes about Redemption
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.
— John Newton
How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.
— John Newton
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
— John Ortberg
eschatological thinking.
— John Ortberg
God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.
— John Ortberg
Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.
— John Ortberg
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
— John Ortberg
a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification
— John Owen
Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.
— John Owen
And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
— John Owen
First, it is clear that Christ died to procure for us an actual reconciliation with God, and not only a power for us to be reconciled unto him; for 'when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,' Rom. v. 10.
— John Owen
Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is not done for the sins of the reprobates, because he justly punisheth them to eternity upon themselves, Matt. v. 26.
— John Owen