Quotes about Redemption
Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.
- Greg Laurie
The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.
- Matt Chandler
Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
- Andy Stanley
Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
- Tullian Tchividjian
What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.
- John Hagee
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
- CS Lewis
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
- Barbara Johnson
Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.
- Andy Stanley
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
- Mother Teresa
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
- St. Augustine
God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."
- NT Wright