Quotes about Redemption

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

Only through faith in the grace of God, only through mercy at the hand of God, only through hope in the Son of God.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

Through my memory of the Passion, God can purify my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.