Quotes about Redemption

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Every time you say no to Jesus Christ, it makes it that much harder for you to say yes to Jesus Christ.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.