Quotes About Redemption

Where I a pris'ner chain'd, scarce freely drawThe air imprison'd also, close and damp,Unwholsome draught; but here I feel amends,The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and sweet,With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.Milton'sSampson Agonistes.

You cannot suppose me too bad a man, in a Christian sense. Thank God, I am a Christian in belief, tho' I have been a Devil in practice. You are a heavenly-minded man; give me words which may go to my heart; and tell me what I shall say to my God.

More joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just persons, who need it not.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

A new Earth and new Heaven.

So you see, Tess, this is really the story about God, the brave, and his love for his bride, you. He gave everything he had for you, including that which he loves the most, Jesus. Not because you do anything great, but because he loves you exactly as you are. That's why he will forgive you, and you can trust him with your whole life and be his friend forever. Isn't this a neat story? I heard it last Sunday night." Tess

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself...

If national interest comes before our common humanity, Dalia said, then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything! One

it is only through forgiveness that wrongs can be put right.

A todos nos pasa como a Cristo, al final nos reconocen por las heridas.

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

For you, I wish for second chances

I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point - Sydney Stanford

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me.

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point.

You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else-- find the boy who lit the fire in the first place, to see if you can change him.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.