Quotes about Redemption
In My greatest hour of need, My closest friends deserted Me. Judas betrayed Me, Peter denied Me, and the rest fled for their lives. Only John followed from afar. I had cared for them for over three years, feeding them and teaching them. Yet as I died for the sins of the world, I forgave. I released all of them—from My friends who had deserted Me to the Roman guard who had crucified Me. They didn't ask for forgiveness, yet I freely gave it.
— John Bevere
Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!
— John Bunyan
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
— John Bunyan
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
— John Bunyan
The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.
— John C. Wright
For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.
— John Calvin
He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit
— John Calvin
The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.
— John Calvin
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
— John Calvin
For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?
— John Calvin
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
— John Calvin
If we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing.
— John Calvin