Quotes About Redemption

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

I am he whom you sold and dishonored — I am he whose betrothed you prostituted — I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune — I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger — I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven - I am Edmund Dantes!

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven. When

Si has dejado de vivir para ti mismo y para el pecado, y has confiado en Jesucristo y Su obra para justificarte delante de Dios, entonces el Señor te ha dado el Espíritu Santo.

No matter who your earthly family is or how they failed you, your heavenly Father will never deny you nor forsake you.' That made me think about why Jesus was born." " 'Because he will save his people from their sins,

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Of course, thirty would be nice again. I screwed that decade up and could really use a do-over.

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. —Eugene O'Neill My

Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough?

Our sin does not make us useless, no matter how great it is. God is willing to forgive us, to use us, and to allow us to know his presence.

For all Christians, baptism embodies release from yesterday's sin and receipt of tomorrow's promise: going under the water, the old self is buried in the death of Christ; rising from the water the self is new, joined to the resurrected Christ.

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

I, too, wanted to do penance for my own sins and for the sins of the whole world, for I had a keen sense of sin, of natural imperfection and earthliness.

What, then, is his appraisal of your worth? He was willing to pay the price of his own Son's death on an executioner's cross to pay for your sin so you might have an intimate relationship with him. That's the value God places on you. If you truly see how precious and valuable a treasure you and your sexuality are to him, it will transform the way you allow others to treat you—"significant others" included.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.

All that was left within him longed to just make it right, to just somehow make it right again.

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

I am the door! By me, if any man enters in, he shall be saved and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but to steal, kill and destroy.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Christ who is your life,' (Col 3:4): This identification reflects the relentless Christological focus of Colossians.