Quotes About Redemption

Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

It is only in defeat that we become Christian

We are all broken, that is how the light gets in.

We are all broken – that's how the light gets in.

mér fanst þær fyrirgefa okkur þó við værum ásfángin og gift - það mundi altsaman lagast með tímanum

One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: God is closer to sinners than to saints. This is how he explained it: God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin you cut the string. then God ties it up again, making a knot-and therby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string-and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.

the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.

You were created to be free. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you're also called to be free.

By the way, if you're running from God, he's already waiting for you, wherever your journey takes you. No matter how far you run, he will be just as close to you as he was when you left.

Don't let your shortcomings and flaws convince you that you need to become something other than human. Our brokenness is not proof that God could not or would not love us, but proof that what we need is the God who both created us and loves us. What our souls long to become is not something other than human, but to become beautifully human.

When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself

The gospel is good news, not good advice," popular preacher Timothy Keller writes. "The gospel is not primarily a way of life. It is not something we do, but something that has been done for us and something that we must respond to.

that the deepest experience of human existence, the most creative, the most joyful, and surely the most true is the experience taught to us by the incarnate Word of God and bought for us by his crucifixion and resurrection.

Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.

You feel ugly, you feel used, you feel broken you feel bruised. Ahh but me, I can see all the beauty underneath. You've been robbed of love and pride. Been ignored and cast aside. Even so, I still know there is beauty underneath. Diamonds never sparkled bright, if they are they are set just right. Beauty sometimes goes unseen. -Phantom

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

I came unglued and went back together the wrong way and fell apart again.

Going to prison is pretty common. Coming out a better person than when you went in, that's never been done.

Krew na twoich r?kach, Falka, krew na twej sukience P?o?, p?o?, Falka, za twe zbrodnie Sp?o? i skonaj w m?ce!

La tua spedizione ha un fine personale e privato, anzi è il carattere di questo fine a richiedere che tu lo realizzi da solo, personalmente. Il rischio, la minaccia, la fatica, la lotta con la disperazione devono gravare solo ed esclusivamente su di te. Perché fanno parte della penitenza e del riscatto della colpa che stai perseguendo. Una sorta di battesimo del fuoco direi. Passerai attraverso il fuoco, che brucia ma al tempo stesso purifica.

To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.

Risikos, Bedrohung, Mühe, der Kampf mit dem Zweifel müssen auf dir lasten und ausschließlich auf dir. Denn sie sind ja ein Teil der Buße, der Erlösung von Schuld, die du erlangen willst. So eine Art Feuertaufe.

Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»

Il bisogno di espiazione, di un battesimo del fuoco purificatore, il senso di colpa non sono cose di cui possa arrogarti l'esclusiva. La vita si distingue dal mondo bancario perché conosce debiti che si pagano indebitandosi col prossimo.