Quotes about Redemption

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

Self-sufficiency, which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet away from God.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.