Quotes about Redemption
Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.
- John Piper
Redemption, salvation, and restoration are not God's ultimate goal. These He performs for the sake of something greater: namely, the enjoyment He has in glorifying Himself.
- John Piper
The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. MARK 10:45
- John Piper
The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God's infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation.
- John Piper
I spoke the hardest words and almost broke: 'There is another kinsman still More close to you than I. He will Be given legal right to take You if he will. Tomorrow make Your prayer, and I will settle this With elder in the gate.' No kiss That night. But when she left, still dark, She took my hand and drew and arc And said, 'The God of Exodus And flood at dawn will fight for us.' That was our only touch.
- John Piper
God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible
- John Piper
The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.
- John Piper
I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).
- John Piper
The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.
- John Piper
Romans 8:32 may be the most important verse in the Bible, because it establishes the unshakable connection between the greatest event in the universe and the greatest future imaginable: "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
- John Piper
When God put Christ in our condemned place, he did this not only to secure heaven, but to secure holiness. Or even more precisely, not only to secure our life in paradise, but also to secure our love for people.
- John Piper
In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.
- John Piper