Quotes About Redemption

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

God's given your filthy slate the complete clean-up service – even the mess you haven't yet done. Least you can do is go easy on people who let you down every now and then.

I remember I had lunch with John Travolta when he was in the doldrums. I mean, he was, as they say, box office poison. He said to me something so great. He said, "I wasn't that good, and I'm not this bad.

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ:Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners, not by spiritual and moral aces

Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt.

A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.

Man was born in sin. He struggled. He erred. He fell.

Legat was praying that Hartmann would be there. He was not sure what he could offer God in return, but it would be something, he promised Him—a different life, a fresh start, a gesture equal to the age.

O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.

Fed the fires that consume us now, the fire that will save.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.

What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.

No one is ever so far in the Shadow, that he can't once again walk in the light.

Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now—" "Betrayer of Hope.