Quotes about Redemption

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

When the devil reminds us of our past sins, that is condemnation;

when the Holy Spirit points out our sins, that is conviction, not condemnation.

Guilt and condemnation are meant to destroy us, but conviction is meant to bring us to repentance.

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

And for Christians, the gospel has always been the lens through which Israel's stories are read—which means, for Christians, Jesus, not the Bible, has the final word. The story of God's people has moved on, and so must we.

Jesus was God's climax to Israel's story, but he was not bound to that story. He pushed at its boundaries, transformed it, and at times left parts of it behind.

Following Jesus isn't like a burden we carry on our shoulders. It's an internal process so radical and painful that the best way to describe it for people of that day is as the act of being bound and nailed like a criminal to a piece of wood lifted above the ground where you are left hanging in naked humiliation and intense pain until you suffocate.