Isaiah 43:1 (NASB) 1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!
The purpose of Christ's redeeming work was to make it possible for bad men to become good—deeply, radically, and finally. A. W. Tozer
Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1992), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 521-522.