Quotes about Redemption

Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus' sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.