Quotes about Redemption

Next time you're in the car, take a look at the stoplights. Use them to help you remember to live for God. On red, remember that Jesus' blood takes away our sins. On yellow, be careful about what you do and say. And on green, praise God every chance you get.

The heart of the human problem is the heart of the human. And God's treatment is prescribed in John 3:16.

Not one bad deed has deducted from my salvation. No good deed, if there are any, has enhanced it.

14He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains. 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his love and for the miracles he does

Grace is a God who stoops.

Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us?

Guilt leaves a tattooed heart.

Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: grace.

Jesus entered our world not like a human but as a human.

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.