Quotes about Redemption

When we talk about heaven, then, or eternal life, or the afterlife—any of that—it's important that we begin with the categories and claims that people were familiar with in Jesus's first-century Jewish world. They did not talk about a future life somewhere else, because they anticipated a coming day when the world would be restored, renewed, and redeemed and there would be peace on earth.

God's love was like the sunrise, chasing back the dark and piercing the heart with joy.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.