Quotes about Redemption

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Pain and blessings, deep wounds and healed scars, and, thank heaven, a God who could make sense of it all.

Before the trip I read that pilgrims often bring a small rock or stone from their home. It represents a burden they've been carrying or a loved one they are grieving or a sin for which they're doing penance. At some point on the Camino, they lay down that stone. The most popular place is at the Cruz de Ferro in Spain, the highest point on the Camino Frances.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.

No doctrine of Redemption that in any way casts the slightest shadow over the high mountain of Divine Sovereignty can be tolerated for a moment.

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

The demands of justice must be met; the requirements of God's holiness must be satisfied; the awful debt we incurred must be paid. And on the Cross this was done; done by none less than the Son of God; done perfectly; done once for all. "It is finished.

Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.

It is finished." Reader, do you believe it? Or are you trying to add something of our own to the finished work of Christ to secure the favor of God?

But there was a special reason for mentioning His "side" here—see John 19:34: through His pierced side a way was opened to His heart, the seat of the affections! In John we see Him as the Son of God, and God is love.

The whole of my life stood open to His view from the beginning. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me. Oh, how the realization of this should bow me in wonder and worship before Him!