Quotes about Redemption

God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.

The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.

The bloodline of Jesus Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. The death and resurrection of the Son of God for sinners is the only sufficient power to bring the bloodlines of race into the single bloodline of the cross.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

He died for me, who caused His pain-- For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love, how can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me

The all-glorious Christ is both the means and the goal of our salvation from blindness.

Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God He is if he were constrained by anything outside Himself.

Loved Then he calls us loved. "God's chosen ones, holy and beloved." If you are a believer in Christ, God, the maker of the universe, chose you, set you apart for himself, and loves you. He is for you and not against you. "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8).

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The reason we need a ransom to be paid for us is that we have sold ourselves into sin and have been alienated from a holy God. When Jesus gave his life as a ransom, our slave masters, sin and death and the Devil, had to give up their claim on us. And the result was that we could be adopted into the family of God.