Quotes About Redemption

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----"The Gospel According to Shug

Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

Every lick you hit me you will suffer twice

What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.

The dead are required to finish two tasks before all is over with them: one is to guide back to the path someone you left behind who is lost, because of your folly; the other is to host a ceremony so that you and others you have hurt may face eternity reconciled and complete.

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. How's that? But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. I think I can get up now. She has given me the way out.

time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Following Jesus might take us into dark, lonely places where we can't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, scary as it may be, resurrection is not about God coming in the nick of time to save the day but about God coming after the corpse is dead and buried. Sometimes God reaches in only when the darkness has gotten pitch black and then shows his resurrection power to bring good in the midst of evil and pain.

I've killed him," she murmured. "I've killed Donald the Grim. Faith, what will become of me? I've killed a man who stood as guardian to me. I'll go to Hell, as sure as I stand here." Kneeling swiftly

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you." He took a long breath, and let it sigh away. "Or you can let it go.

He felt a strange urge, right then, just to put his head down and walk past, off into the night and never look back. Then he wouldn't have to be the Bloody-Nine again... He could've gone far away, and started new, and been whoever he wanted. But he'd tried that once already, and it had done him no good. The past was always right behind him, breathing on his neck. It was time to turn around and face it.

i want... i want a chance to do it all again. To do it... right.' Tears showed in the Old Man's eyes. 'How ever did it go so wrong, Temple? I had so many advantages. So many opportunities. All squandered. All slipped away like sand through a glass. So many disappointments...' 'Most of them you brought on yourself' 'Of course.' Cosca gave a ragged sigh. 'But they're the ones that hurt the worst.

Sand dan Glokta, shield to the helpless. Is it ever too late to be . . . a good man?

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt

When you're in hell," murmured Yarvi, "only a devil can point the way out.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past.