Quotes about Redemption

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.

For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

For what is more consonant with faith than to recognize that we are naked of all virtue, in order to be clothed by God? That we are empty of all good, to be filled by him? That we are slaves of sin, to be freed by him? Blind, to be illumined by him? Lame, to be made straight by him? Weak, to be sustained by him? To take away from us all occasion for glorying, that he alone may stand forth gloriously and we glory in him [cf. I Cor. 1:31; II Cor. 10:17]?

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned

If we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing.

When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3—4).

Give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.