Quotes about Redemption

The atonement was God's extending favor to people who deserved not favor but wrath. The atonement was God's bridging the awful "Grand Canyon" of sin to reach people who were in rebellion against Him. And He did this at infinite cost to Himself by sending Jesus to die in our place.

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

To see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

I have done so for two reasons: First, that we might see the depth of God's love, not only in giving His one and only Son, but in giving Him to die for such people as Paul has described us to be.

God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child.

Holiness, then, is not necessary as a condition of salvation—that would be salvation by works—but as a part of salvation that is received by faith in Christ.

We cannot receive half of God's grace. If we have experienced it at all, we will experience not only forgiveness of our sins but also freedom from sin's dominion.

All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.

God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.