Quotes about Redemption

Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.

Let us know, therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for us but death.

Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power.

For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

The apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ.

But Scripture praises everywhere his pure and unmixed mercy, which does away with all merit.

Likewise, what grounds He gives us to consider His mercy! When He does not stop showing His mercy to miserable sinners, leading them back to Him by His more than paternal mercy until their obstinacy is broken down by His benefits.

Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.

I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may blot out our transgressions, but also how he discharges the office of a good Shepherd in protecting his flock.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him.