Quotes About Redemption

She wrapped her hands around the bars, tears welling in her eyes. She'd been wrong, so wrong. Captain Krause and his men hadn't been pursuing her to hurt her; they'd been trying to rescue her

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Holding my phone, looking out at twinkling Lake Michigan, I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing—being right—gets you nothing in this world. It's the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time. Fuck Sasha, I thought.

She was careful not to indulge this line of thinking. "I don't remember him," she told Coz. "I have nothing to say." She did this for Coz's protection and her own—they were writing a story of redemption, of fresh beginnings and second chances. But in that direction lay only sorrow.

if we can work the story around the idea of punishment and redemption, that could be *very* appealing.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

Where are you going?" I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn't just walk away. "To hell, eventually," Jameson answered. "Probably to the wine cellar, for now.

I'm not your penance, Grayson Hawthorne.

Sometimes they return to exact revenge.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Wallace Stevens wrote, "After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Have you ever done something you regretted?' 'Does last year's school picture counts?

know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life." She

You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life.

You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you're not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life." She said, "I was born in Nashville

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.

God loves us so much that he crushed his Son so that we might be his and that this love isn't based on our worthiness or performance. His love doesn't fluctuate from day-to-day. It was settled the moment he set it upon you before the foundation of the world.

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

Faith, then, is simply a believing that there is a God who loves us, in spite of the poison of sin coursing through our soul.

My pure-white past did not so much atone for me as rather blacken my present all the more

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

You say I killed you. Haunt me, then!

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.