Quotes about Redemption

Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.

I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go.

The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, "Come home, I still love you.

Every time I look at the cross I am reminded of the greatness of God and the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. I am reminded of the beauty of sacrificial love and the majesty of unswerving devotion to truth.

Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.

Man is no helpless invalid left in a valley of total depravity until God pulls him out. Man is rather an upstanding human being whose vision has been impaired by the cataracts of sin and whose soul has been weakened by the virus of pride, but there is sufficient vision left for him to lift his eyes unto the hills, and there remains enough of God's image for him to turn his weak and sin-battered life toward the Great Physician, the curer of the ravages of sin.

God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.