Quotes About Redemption

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

He felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, God is for and with me.

Yes; but one gets out of prison, said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge

At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner

Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

I am the one whom you sold, betrayed and dishonoured. I am the one whose fiancée you prostituted. I am the one on whom you trampled in order to attain a fortune. I am the one whose father you condemned to starvation, and the one who condemned you to starvation, but who none the less forgives you, because he himself needs forgiveness. I am Edmond Dantès!

And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!

No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.

23. La isla de Montecristo

ma io, tradito, assassinato, gettato a mia volta in una tomba, ne sono uscito per grazia di Dio, e devo a Dio la mia vendetta: per questo mi manda, e sono qui.

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