Quotes about Redemption

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

I would submit to you that our greatest need is to rediscover the gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim it. I have always said this, especially to the young missionaries that I have dealt with.

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.