Have you lost your way? Check out these inspirational redemption quotes to help you refocus and get back on track.
Life, religion, and spirituality all revolve around redemption. It’s also a popular theme in literature, film, and art.
Though redemption usually refers to paying off a debt or reclaiming something that has been lost, it has a much deeper spiritual significance. Christianity says that the only way to redeem one’s soul is via Christ and repentance, which clears one’s sin debts.
We hope these redemption quotes help you seek redemption and provide trust that you deserve to be redeemed, no matter how you look at it or how much you need it.
Quotes About Redemption
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.____Oswald Chambers
Redemption is a magnificent thing… the life of God in the soul of man.___Leonard Ravenhill
You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.__Lamentations 3:58, NIV
The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.– Vilna Gaon
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.__Martin Buber
[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
Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.___Evinda Lepins
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.___Khaled Hosseini
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.___John Piper
Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.― Beth Bernobich
True redemption is seized when you accept the future consequences for your past mistakes.__Eduardo Macedo
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.___Greg Boyle
Redemption can be found in hell itself if that’s where you happen to be.___Lin Jensen
Redemption is never where you expect to find it. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.___Patti Smith
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.___Audrey Hepburn
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.__George R.R. Martin
True redemption is when guilt leads to good. – Khaled Hosseini
No man can walk so long in the shadow that he cannot come again to the light.__Robert Jordan
It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.___Criss Jami
In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy.___John A. MacAulay
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.___Bertrand Russell
Understanding and tenderness would arise among us no matter how bad things got, and we found redemption in the very places we hurt most.___Lin Jensen
True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption.___Bell Hooks
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
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.___Paul David Tripp
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. – Bryan Stevenson
I know that my Redeemer lives, And ever prays for me; I know eternal life He gives, From sin and sorrow free.__Fred A. Fillmore
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe redemption is something you can strive for but never fully achieve.___K.A. Tucker
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.___Tom Petty
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories.___Logan Paul
No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption. – Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.___Ravi Shastri
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.___Paolo Coelho
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way.___Joss Whedon
Redemption sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.___Dawn Richard
At some point you will meet my imperfections. Will you leave or will you stay for my redemption?___Shanna Rodriguez
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.___Aung San Suu Kyi
I don’t believe the world’s a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.___Colum McCann
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos.___Brendan Fraser
Not too many times in life do you get a chance at redemption. – Henry Cejudo
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.___Tennessee Williams
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.___Ice T
We seek redemption, yet, we don’t seek forgiveness.___Anthony T. Hincks
And while some healing does happen, it isn’t a healing of redemption or epiphany. It’s more like the slow absorption of a bruise.___Joan Wickersham
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.___Richard Von Weizsaecker
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.____Willard Van Orman Quine
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.___Clive Barker, Abarat: Days Of Magic, Nights Of War
Redemption is invented by the sinner.___Lawrence Hill
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.___Christopher Hitchens
It may be – I hope it is – redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.___William Golding
Redemption in Christianity
At the cross, God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.___E. Stanley Jones
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.– Adlai Stevenson
I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.___Billy Graham
God’s holiness demands that sin be punished – but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.___Billy Graham
Whom man kills God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems.___Victor Hugo
I wish I would have known this sooner. I wish I could have seen the entire redemptive, narrative arc of the Bible.___Brant Hansen
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That’s why Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption.___Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.___Hans Urs von Balthasar
If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus’ fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.___A.W. Tozer
The power that is to redeem him must be a power working within, not without.__Lyman Abbott
To be in Christ — that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you — that is sanctification!― Major W. Ian Thomas
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.___Saint Ambrose
To be in Christ – that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you – that is sanctification!___Maj. W. Ian Thomas
Redemption from sin is greater than redemption from affliction. – Daniel Defoe
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.__E. Stalney Jones
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 Pierce
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 greatest comfort in life is Christ on the move for our redemption timelessly!__Evinda Lepins
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.___Dallas Willard
I know that my Redeemer lives, And ever prays for me; I know eternal life He gives, From sin and sorrow free.___Fred A. Filmore
All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.__Julien Baker
The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn’t deserve so we could have the heaven we don’t deserve.___Randy Alcorn
God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.___Paul David Tripp
Redemption is the consummation of love; other gifts are only as mites from the Divine Treasury; but redemption opens all the stores of indulgence and grace.___George Winfred Harvey
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.― Khaled Hosseini
Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray – where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.___Sherry L. Hoppe
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.― Vera Nazarian
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.___Jonathan Edwards
Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.― Ken Follett
When it comes to God, We can’t run out of second chances… only time.___Robin Jones Gunn
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed. – Ravi Zacharias
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man’s redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.___Robert Boyle
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.___Billy Graham
There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.― Bernhard Schlink
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.___Søren Kierkegaard
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.”
― Dave Eggers
Bible Verses on Redemption
He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!___Psalm 111:9, ESV
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;___Psalm 107:2, ESV
I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. – Job 19:25, NIV
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,___Acts 3:19, NIV
It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.___1 Corinthians 1:30, KJB
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.____Titus 2:14, KJB
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,___Ephesians 1:7, ESV
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.__Isaiah 44:22, ESV
And the king swore, saying, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,___1 Kings 1:29, ESV