Quotes about Redemption
The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.
— David Jeremiah
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
— William Saroyan
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
— Mark Twain
unearned suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, "Come home, I still love you.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every time I look at the cross I am reminded of the greatness of God and the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. I am reminded of the beauty of sacrificial love and the majesty of unswerving devotion to truth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is no helpless invalid left in a valley of total depravity until God pulls him out. Man is rather an upstanding human being whose vision has been impaired by the cataracts of sin and whose soul has been weakened by the virus of pride, but there is sufficient vision left for him to lift his eyes unto the hills, and there remains enough of God's image for him to turn his weak and sin-battered life toward the Great Physician, the curer of the ravages of sin.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must recognize that Jesus was nailed to the cross not simply by sin but also by blindness. The men who cried, "Crucify him," were not bad men but rather blind men. The jeering mob that lined the roadside which led to Calvary was composed not of evil people but of blind people. They knew not what they did. What a tragedy!
— Martin Luther King, Jr.