Quotes About Redemption

purpose was not to make us worthy of God's love, but to set us free to see that we already have it. And

No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son of God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.

No, the cross was not primarily about exacting punishment; it was about prevailing over sin's power. In the Son, God didn't just punish sin, but he served up the antidote that Christ was able to endure until sin itself was destroyed. Now, all who embrace him can live in the effects of the andidote, prevailing over sin through a growing relationship to the Creator of all.

What Paragal intended for evil has become the foundation for much that is good.

Tears..." Pho-Poh told Mrs. Lim, as if her friend instead had asked the question. "... tears save us from damnation.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

True regret is based on repentance – grieving for the sin, not the consequence of sin.

betrayal—it is only as you give up your rights to vindicate yourself, it is only in laying down the injustices, it is only in forgiving those who have wronged you—that you lay down your life. And as you lay down

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.

But even a monster has hope. He hopes that someday he'll go back to being a normal human being.

a man who has the strength of character to leave off when he has only ruined others, is a reformed character.

O Lord Jesus, thank you for carrying my cross."

Only God can deliver you from the evil you love so much."

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Christians today, no less than people of other faiths, are caught between pervasive apathy and acts of violence, apathy born of hopelessness about the enormity of the evils that confront us and recourse to violence and coercion that seriously compromises or even destroys the goals of a better future. Either way, we can close off the future to which we are directed by God our creator and redeemer.

Israel faced the Red Sea. Mountains were on each side. Pharaoh and his army were close behind. Then Moses said, "Stand still and see how God will save you.

I knew you're a God of love. You're always ready to change your mind about punishing people." -Jonah

Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet because he wept for the peoples' sins.

L'amore aveva lastricato questa famiglia di cadaveri sui quali sgambettava un numero esponenziale di marmocchi, e tutte queste donne erano pronte a ricominciare da zero, con il cuore puro, a incantarsi per l'improvviso rossore sulle guance incavate di Thérèse, identificato immediatamente come il segno dell'amore, quando io avevo sperato in una innocente tubercolosi..

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

De verdad la venganza puede curar una herida así?

It was stolen from the Jews on the way to the gas chambers, and I want it back.