Who said the longest road in the world is the road to redemption?

This phrase may be attributed to writer Jace J Quinn. It has been used in a print ad for General Motors. Regardless of its origin, whoever said it was apparently unaware that the road to redemption is about the shortest road one could conceive of--two steps. Take the two steps described in The Bible's Epistle to the Romans, the tenth chapter, the ninth verse, and you have arrived at Redemptionville, aka salvation:

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

To be redeemed is to be bought back, and you have been bought back from eternal death. Hence, you have been saved from death by the man who "fell on the grenade" for you by dying in your place, and paid the price you were required to pay for your sin, since "the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).