Quotes about Redemption

Since your standing with God is based not on your righteousness but on Christ's, in moments of failure, you can run to him and not from him.

Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

The purpose of God's grace is not to make your little kingdom of one work better.

The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:

Sin is not just a matter of bad behavior. It is a condition of the heart. That's why you cannot free yourself from it.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God, and for that we all need forgiving, rescuing, and transforming grace.

You don't have to worry about whether your wrongs will be forgiven and your weaknesses greeted with patience and grace. You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

The first of these comforts is the stunningly encouraging comfort of God's amazing grace.

The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy—but then Jesus came.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no defeat in the cross. Only triumph is to be found there.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.