Quotes About Redemption

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.

I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.

We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.

I was kicked out of my own house and had my own drag mother, you know, a house mother. Things with my family are great now - my mom and dad were at the premiere - but they had kicked me out.

I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with the United States Presidency, with power on that level - the idea is that to have a black in that office leading a largely white country would be redemptive for America.

I am one of the crucified dead.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

Living in this world, we all just want to be happy. And I don't think it is right to be denied that opportunity over a single mistake.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

Everyone deserves second chances.

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

If men do not return to God, evil will destroy us.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

I only gave back the devil the stuff I got serving him.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

Christ died for the truth.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.