Quotes About Redemption

never lose sight, as we finger the pain and disillusionment of our after times, of the possibility of a New Jerusalem.

slavery would make us—and the idea—completely irredeemable. How can the shining city on the hill be capable of such evil? We would rather find comfort and safety in the lie than try to resolve this question. But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

Jesus's methods are just as much a part of the gospel as his message.

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer

Es el celo del amor de Dios en Cristo lo que reivindica a la iglesia como la novia del Señor.

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.

Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum [For this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal covenant; the mystery of faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins].

When Jesus comes, the shadows depart.

The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.

In Adam's fallWe sinned all.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

In whatsoever way any come to Me,In that same way I grant them favor.

O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer].

We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

You don't make up for your sins in church, you do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

All the powers of darkness vanish; Christ our Day-Star mounts the skies.