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Redemption Quotes


"Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer."


"Your soul was bought for a price far greater than the world on the cross, everything Satan offers you in exchange for your soul is from the world and absolutely worthless. John 3:16"


"Don't come to God because you have a problem, come to God because God has a problem with your soul. John3:18"



"Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is."



"If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them."



"Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?"


"In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes."


"Every monster could be saved."



"What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay."


"Mapleshade: 'Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything.' Crookedstar: 'No, Mapleshade. You're wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now... ...now everything precious to me is here, in StarClan. My family is waiting here for me, when my ninth life has passed. It's you who have lost. You have no power over me anymore.' Mapleshade: 'I have destroyed you!' Crookedstar: 'No, Mapleshade. I still have the cats that I loved. You have nothing and no one."


"Thank you for giving me another chance.''Thank you for deserving one."



"If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him."



"He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him."


"An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage."


"By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner."


"Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey."


"Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus' disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God (Mark 10:27). Pursuing what we want is possible. It is easy. It is a pleasant kind of freedom. But the only freedom that lasts is pursuing what we want when we want what we ought. And it is devastating to discover we don't, and we can't."


"The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ."


"Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming."


"It is wise to know God forgives sins, if only turn to walk in the light."


"In this case, two wrongs made a major right."


"I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted."


"All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones."


"Hey Rid?'She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could...'Yeah, Shrinky Dink?'You're not all bad.'She looked right at him and almost smiled. 'You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way."



"If a person is saved, and still continues to live according to his former worldly way of life, he isnot only destroying himself and his salvation - he is also destroying his whole life."


"I mean we all need a second chance sometimes."


"You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right."



"There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son."


"Jesus Christ has set me free from the chains of sin."



"Time wasters are life wasters."



"Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed."


"But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You'll see."



"What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?"


"All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16"


"When it comes to salvation, we are all fugitives. Psalm 119:176"


"A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you."


"It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for."
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