Quotes about Redemption

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you're actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing - but now you're letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened... We should not be ignorant of Satan's devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this...!

Only true faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, confirmed by the Holy Spirit living inside of us, makes us a new creation.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Though she lived on the periphery of God's people and was unquestionably an outsider, Rahab nevertheless had eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to hope, and a will to throw herself on God's mercy.

Yet it was the LORD'S will to crush him and cause him to suffer.

Wounded people need to repent of their sin.

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

God has forgiven me. As an act of grateful worship, I choose to forgive others.

If our God were small enough for us to understand, He wouldn't be big enough to save us.