Quotes about Redemption

They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

but once a month, or even once a year, of him, or any one who ever wronged you, you would forgive him in your heart, I know!

Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough to live forever and never see the grave.

God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!

No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

By whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.

Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross.

Hell wasn't made for people; God doesn't want anyone to go there. But he is utter goodness—absolute holiness—and evil cannot be in his presence.

Hell ultimately is separation from God—not only separation from all that is good but also integration with all that is evil.

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people."