Quotes about Redemption

He came. That is the salient fact, the towering truth, that alone keeps us from putting a bullet through our heads. He came.

Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven).

A God made in the world's image can't save the world.

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).

His divinity existed without His humanity before the Incarnation, but ever since the Incarnation His humanity is joined forever to His divinity. His Ascension was not the undoing of His Incarnation.

Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!

Jesus came the first time to become our Savior, and He's coming the second time to be our King.

As the conditions of our world worsen, Jesus said we shouldn't hang our heads in depression or shake our heads in confusion. We should lift up our heads in expectation, for our redemption draws near (Luke 21:28).

He turned His back upon His Son so that He would never have to turn His back on you.

There is a sermon in the fact that the gates are pearl. [Because] heaven is entered through suffering and travail, through redemption and blood, through the agony of the cross. A pearl is a jewel made by a little animal that is wounded. Without the wound, the pearl is never formed.

As the conditions of our world worsen, Jesus said we shouldn't hang our heads in depression or shake our heads in confusion. We should lift up our heads in expectation, for our redemption draws near (Luke 21:28). After Paul told the Thessalonians about the sudden return of Christ for His people, he said, "Comfort one another with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:18).