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Quotes About Redemption

He had sworn a thousand times to kill her, but Cosca had broken all manner of oaths in his life, and the sight of her brought no rage. Instead what welled up in him was a mixture of worn-out self-pity, sappy joy and, most of all, piercing shame at seeing in her face how far he had fallen. He felt the ache in his nose, behind his cheeks, tears welling in his stinging eyes. For once he was grateful that they were red as wounds at the best of times. If he wept, no once could tell the difference.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There was a red stain across Gorst's eye above the flatbow bolt. But the other one rolled up towards Leo. It seemed, somehow, he still had that smile. 'Do you believe...' His voice sounded much like anyone else's, whispering. 'In redemption?' 'I don't fucking care.' 'You're young. Give it time.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Once your hands get bloody it ain't so easy to get 'em clean.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.
~ Joe Hill
If Wayne needed a punching bag, Vic was ready to take the hits. It would be a way of making amends. How she loved that word. She liked that it almost sounded like "amen".
~ Joe Hill
The Devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their souls for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.
~ Joe Hill
God saves—but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later.
~ Joe Hill
He was like a holy person in a Bible story, someone who can heal the ripped and infected parts of you with a laying-on of hands. You know how Bible stories go. That kind of person, they're never around long. Losers and jerks put nails in them and watch the air run out.
~ Joe Hill
Thank you, Maggie. For everything. For trying to warn me. For helping me. I'd give anything to take back the way I acted when I saw you in Haverhill. I was scared of you. That's not an excuse. There isn't any excuse. There's a lot of things I wish I could redo. You can't imagine. I wish there was something I could do to show you how sorry I am. Something I could give you besides words.
~ Joe Hill
He felt he was being swept away, not just from his life but from God, the idea of God, or hope, or reason, the idea that things made sense, that cause followed effect, and it ought not to be like this, Ig felt, death ought not to be like this, even for sinners. He
~ Joe Hill
Parte dele queria mais: um último beijo, uma última foda, um último trago, ou talvez algo mais profundo, perdão, redenção.
~ Joe Hill
Was there any human urge more pitiful—or more intense—than wanting another chance at something? His
~ Joe Hill
With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381
~ Joe Hill
Espero que, si hay otra vida después de ésta, no nos juzguen demasiado severamente por lo que hicimos mal aquí. Que nos perdonen los errores que cometimos por amor. Estoy seguro de que aquello, dejar ir a alguien así, tiene que ser un pecado.
~ Joe Hill
On England's elimination from the 2002 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Brazil] The dressing room was like a morgue. Nobody moved, nobody spoke. The players were traumatized. They had a glimpse of immortality and let it slip. Some might get the chance to redeem themselves, others - notably Seaman - certainly wouldn't. From Sven-Goran Eriksson: The Final Reckoning
~ Joe Lovejoy
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~ Joe Smith
I want you to tell them my little story, and then tell them the good news-that when you know Christ, you know there's something better coming.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Jesus said, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
John 1:12 says, 'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.' And the apostle Paul told us in Ephesians, 'By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
~ Joel Osteen