Quotes about Redemption

Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

The gospel sweetens the law.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.