Quotes About Redemption

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

Perdona —dijo Margaret—. Esa es tu única esperanza, cariño. Perdonar significa liberar a un prisionero... y descubrir que ese prisionero eras tú.

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

Christians start talking about forgiveness as if somehow forgiveness serves as an escape hatch from the outcome of bad decisions.

God sees your sin as a debt you can't pay. There is no point in asking you to. To think that being good will somehow makes you square with God would be like Allie promising to clean up her room after being confronted with the damage she did to my car. Cleaning up her room doesn't pay me back. It's a nice gesture, but it doesn't fix my car.

You're worse than you thought, but God loves you more than you imagined.

The most important thing in your life is your personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Your regrets are only part of your story. They don't have to be the story. Your past should remind you. It doesn't have to define you.

The church is not here to win. Just the opposite. By every human measure, our Savior lost. On purpose. With a purpose.

The God of Christianity never claims to be fair. He goes beyond fair. The Bible teaches that he decided not to give us what we deserve--that's mercy. In addition, God decided to give us what we don't deserve--we call that grace.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Shame is a hold that sin uses on you. As long as you're ashamed of the sin, it has a hold on you. When you can name it and walk away from it, you're walking in the power of God. That's what the Lord wants from His people. Sin and shame have no place in the life of a man or woman of God.

There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption.

There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own, irremediable appetites, can never move the heart for not one phrase in it hints at the possibility of redemption; grace could not come to the world from its own despair, only through some external mediator, so that, sometimes, the beast will look as if he half welcomes the knife that despatches him.

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

This world's a vile oubliette. Yet in its refuse I will find the key to free me.

slave. And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it. Why should we live any longer?" And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly. 1 Maccabees 2:1–14

righteousness, they will repent and return to the Lord.

The prophets speak of a Messiah who is the begotten Son of HaShem," Simeon said. "And if they truly spoke for HaShem, then He is coming, just as the prophets foretold. From where is He coming? HaShem knows, and when it is time, He will send Him.

We were all bought with a price, so we are all slaves to Yeshua. Each one should remain in whatever situation he was called, unless the Lord provides a legitimate escape.

Did Christ not die for the entire world?" Paul asked. "For the cruel master as well as for the innocent child?

If Adonai means for you to gain victory over the man who wronged you, He will arrange it . . . when the time is

tragedies reported to us, the widow maintained her faith in Adonai, declaring that her people were bound to suffer for their disloyalty to God. "Bnei-Yisrael has done what is evil in Adonai's eyes," she would say, "and He has handed us over to our enemies. When we repent and turn to the Lord our God, He

Adonai, forgive me. "He has," Rei assured me.