Quotes about Redemption
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
— CS Lewis
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
— St. Augustine
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
— John Bunyan
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
— David O. McKay
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
— Dorothy Day
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.
— Gregory Thaumaturgus
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
— Oswald Chambers
God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.
— Pope Leo I
Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
— Oswald Chambers
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
— Henry Ford