601 Quotes About Redemption

It was at the point where I was convinced of my own death that God finally convinced me of His life. And I stand amazed that my death birthed His life.

Every gift that we will ever receive, bar one, will die ‘with us.’ The only gift that died ‘for us’ so that nothing ever need die ‘with us’ is the gift that God handed us on Christmas. And as for me, I done with all the dying.

To embrace God does not involve some complex formula of endless dictates or the embracing of a rule mongering tyrant with a forever list of expectations. It simply involves saying “yes” to the gift of Christmas and “no” to every lesser gift simply because every other gift is lesser. And how simple is that?

Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.

The pit is of my own making.  The rescue is of God's love.  And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.

It’s a matter of time. That’s all it is. For God will allow mankind to fall to its own demise so that God can raise us up to His glory. For the farther the fall, the more miraculous the ascent.

Of course I can’t reach God. But He can reach me.

At the point that I’ve given up being found by God is the point that I’m most ready to be found by Him.

To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.