Quotes about Redemption

Creation is the first and probably the final Bible, Incarnation is already Redemption, Christmas is already Easter, and Jesus is already Christ.

But grace is not a late arrival, an occasional add-on for a handful of humans, and God's grace and life did not just appear a few thousand years ago, when Jesus came and a few lucky humans found him in the Bible. God's grace cannot be a random problem solver doled out to the few and the virtuous - or it is hardly grace at all!

Resurrection is about the whole of creation, it is about history, it is about every human who has ever been conceived, sinned, suffered, and died, every animal that has lived and died a tortured death, every element that has changed from solid, to liquid, to ether, over great expanses of time. It is about you and it is about me. It is about everything. The "Christ journey" is indeed another name for every thing.

God takes away the shame we have by giving us back to ourselves—by giving us God! You don't get any better than that. Human love does the same thing. When someone else loves you, they give you not just themselves, but for some reason they give you back your own self, but now a truer and better self. This dance between the Lover and the beloved is the psychology of the whole Bible, which we will see poetically described in the wonderful single book, the Song of Songs.

God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.

Grace is always a punishment for us.

the state of mind of the "shipwrecked"3 is perhaps a necessary beginning point for any salvation from such drowning.

Jesus is precisely giving us his full bodily humanity more than his spiritualized divinity!

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.

What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption!

Better to be in trouble with Christ, than in peace without him.