Quotes about Redemption

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

It's only in the cross that we can begin to harmonize this seeming contradiction between suffering and love.

A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the image is marred, but it is a divine image nonetheless, capable of redemption and therefore to be held in honor.

There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.

Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.