Quotes about Redemption

Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences

He stands at the door and knocks, but the latch is on the inside, and only we can open it. He has enacted the consecration, but the communion depends upon us; and whether our work will ever be finished depends entirely on how we relive His life and become other Christ's, for His Good Friday and His passion avail us nothing unless we relive it in our own lives.

God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.

Pain is sacrifice without love. Sacrifice is pain with love. When we understand this, then we shall have an answer for those who feel that God should have let us sin without pain:

One cannot tell when grace is coming or how it will work on the soul; whether it will come as a result of a disgust with sin.

Our Lord never spoke of His Heavenly, or Risen Glory without bringing in the ignominy of the Cross.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior.

It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;