The Drama of Salvation Quotes

“This is essential: the Christian ethic is not born from a system of commandments but is a consequence of our friendship with Christ. This friendship influences life; if it is true it incarnates and fulfills itself in love for neighbor. For this reason, any ethical decay is not limited to the individual sphere but it also weakens personal and communal faith from which it derives and on which it has a crucial effect. Therefore let us allow ourselves to be touched by reconciliation, which God has given us in Christ, by God’s “foolish” love for us; nothing and no one can ever separate us from his love (cf. Rom. 8:39). We live in this certainty. It is this certainty that gives us the strength to live concretely the faith that works in love.”
― Jimmy Akin, The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life

“We must not become morbidly fixated on our sins any more than we should become morbidly fixated on the death of a loved one. At some point, one must move on. But that point is not immediately after the sins have been committed or immediately after a loved one has died. There is a natural process that needs to take place.”
― Jimmy Akin, The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life

“This process is short-circuited when people are told, “Jesus has forgiven all your sins; now stop mourning them!” This is like telling a man whose wife has just died, “Jesus has taken your wife to heaven; now stop mourning her death!” Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:35)—even knowing he was about to bring him back to life. If that’s the case, the need to grieve is so deep in human nature that trying to prevent it is foolish and can even be harmful.”
― Jimmy Akin, The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life

“Penance is one way in which we willingly embrace this discipline in order to learn from it, just as a godly child may embrace his parent’s discipline.”
― Jimmy Akin, The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life