Quotes about Redemption

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.