Quotes About Redemption

To summarize, then: the crucifixion is the touchstone of Christian authenticity, the unique feature by which everything else, including the resurrection, is given its true significance.

Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

the gospel is a message of deliverance from the grip of evil and Death.

Life's darker side: that's Advent.

the entire human race is heir to what John Henry Newman called a "vast primordial catastrophe," and that only a stronger power from outside ourselves can repair the breach.

The unique feature of the Christian proclamation is the shocking claim that God is fully acting, not only in Jesus' resurrected life, but especially in Jesus' death on the cross. To say the same thing in another way, the death of Jesus in and of itself would not be anything remarkable. What is remarkable is that the Creator of the universe is shown forth in this gruesome death.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

'Atonement' is one of my all-time favourite movies.

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

As long as our heart's beating, there's a chance for us, or whoever that person is in our life, and I don't know how the story turns out, but I do know that no one is out of the reach of God, and that anybody's capable of change.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I've been a bad boy trying to be a good man my whole life.

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.