Quotes about Redemption

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.

That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.

Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste

Not many men can have been so loved or have been forgiven so much [...]

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

The love demonstrated on Calvary is the center of the gospel, for it reveals the beauty of God himself.

What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold

All sin in our life is in one way or another a symptom of our being spiritually wounded, sick, or hungry.

The crucified Christ, in short, gives us the "Magic Eye" to discern him in the depths of even the most horrifically violent portraits of God.