Quotes about Redemption

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

eschatological thinking.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

Jesus has made God's presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.

And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.

First, it is clear that Christ died to procure for us an actual reconciliation with God, and not only a power for us to be reconciled unto him; for 'when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,' Rom. v. 10.

Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is not done for the sins of the reprobates, because he justly punisheth them to eternity upon themselves, Matt. v. 26.

You name the name of Christ, profess an interest in him, and expect salvation by him; which way will you apply yourselves unto him?

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This