REDEMPTION QUOTES II
quotations about redemption
How magnificent also is the whole course of geology, or the geologic eras and changes, taken as related to the future great catastrophe of man, and the new-creating, supernatural grace of his redemption. It is as if, standing on some high summit, we could see the great primordial world rolling down through gulfs and fiery cataclysms, where all the living races die; thence to emerge, again and again, when the Almighty fiat calls it forth, a new creation, covered with fresh populations; passing thus, through a kind of geologic eternity, in so many chapters of deaths, and of darting, frisking, singing life; inaugurating so many successive geologic mornings, over the smoothed graves of the previous extinct races; and preluding in this manner the strange world-history of sin and redemption, wherein all the grandest issues of existence lie.
HORACE BUSHNELL
Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
Hell is yourself, and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
attributed, Modern American Literature: Volume V
The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Underneath all the arches of Scripture history, throughout the whole grand temple of the Scriptures, these two voices ever echo, man is ruined, man is redeemed.
CYRUS DAVID FOSS
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Thou didst nothing toward thy own creation, for thou wert created for thy Creator's glory; thou must do something toward thy own redemption, for thou wert redeemed for thy own good; He that made thee without thee, will not save thee without thee.
FRANCIS QUARLES
attributed, Day's Collacon
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
CHARLES FRAZIER
Cold Mountain
The whole structure of man and of the world, is moulded to be the theatre of the redemption of the sinner. Not in Eden, but there on Calvary, and in Heaven, which is the child of Calvary, we see realized the whole idea of God.
JAMES BALDWIN BROWN
The Divine Treatment of Sin
We do not behold the beauty of God merely in his work of creation, but more so in the stupendous one of redemption.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
That which redeems consumes.
PETE ABRAMS
"That Which Redeems", luggy Freelance, July 6, 2004
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
DAVE EGGERS
Zeitoun
Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence -- the work of redemption.
HERRICK JOHNSON
Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
PAUL DAVID TRIPP
Instruments of the Redeemer's Hands
Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love?
Which of ye will be mortal to redeem
Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Omnipotency, though it were but to destroy us, were justly the object of our dread and reverence; but omnipotency to save, deserves our most affectionate esteem.
EZEKIEL HOPKINS
The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
AMY WALDMAN
The Submission
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended, His satisfaction, and His merit. All is done by the price that Christ lays down, which does two things: it pays our debt, and so it satisfies; by its intrinsic value, and by the agreement between the Father and the Son it procures our title, and so it merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery, and the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
A History of the Work of Redemption: Comprising an Outline of Church History
And now without redemption all mankind
Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell
By doom severe.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Feeling the unity of himself and the universe, the man who lives in spirit is no more a separate and self-centered individual but a vehicle of the universal spirit.... He throws himself on the world and lives for its redemption, possessed as he is with an unshakable sense of optimism and an unlimited faith in the powers of the soul.
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
An Idealist View of Life
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
DEAN KOONTZ
Velocity