Quotes about Redemption

by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.

I, a guilty sinner, can never work to get right with God—it is impossible. There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ.

It is a shameful thing for a Christian to talk about getting the victory. We should belong so completely to the Victor that it is always His victory, and "we are more than conquerors through Him . . ." (Romans 8:37).

say that "prayer changes things" is not as close to the truth as saying, "Prayer changes me and then I change things." God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes—a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

Paul's secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive—and that became his purpose.

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love.

God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose—that He may be able to say, "This is My man, and this is My woman." We have to be in God's hand so that He can place others on the Rock, Jesus Christ, just as He has placed us.  

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.