Quotes about Redemption

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;

So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.

Only those who die with Him will live with Him.

Sharing the Body of Christ in Holy Communion wipes out all accidental distinctions of race, class, or condition. Here we are one with the whole of redeemed humanity...

The man who says, 'I am so stupid,' instead of 'Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,' is still far from rebirth.

We give up our time, and get His eternity; we give up our sin, and receive His grace; we give up petty loves, and receive the Flame of Love.

But where the surrender is to God, we get ourselves back ennobled and enriched.

What have I done to deserve this' if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

But the Woman gave Our Lord His human nature. He asked her to give Him a human life—to give Him hands with which to bless children, feet with which to go in search of stray sheep, eyes with which to weep over dead friends, and a body with which to suffer—that He might give us a rebirth in freedom and love.