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Quotes About Redemption

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
~ Saul Bellow
And I prayed and prayed, 'Oh, you…Something,' I said, 'you Something because of whom there is not Nothing. Help me to do Thy will. Take off my stupid sins. Untrammel me. Heavenly Father, open up my dumb heart and for Christ's sake preserve me from unreal things. Oh, Thou who tookest me from pigs, let me not be killed over lions. And forgive my crimes and nonsense and let me return to Lily and the kids.
~ Saul Bellow
Fantasia, fantasia, fantasia. Si trasforma in realtà. Essa sorregge, essa altera, essa redime!
~ Saul Bellow
And where was that day? Past and dead. Whose humiliating memories were these? His and not his father's. What had he to think back on that he could call good? Very, very little. You had to forgive. First, to forgive yourself, and then, general forgiveness.
~ Saul Bellow
there is a life to come – wait and see – and that in the life to come we will feel the pains that we inflicted on others. We will suffer all that we made them suffer, for after death all experience is reversed.
~ Saul Bellow
Y is convinced that Israel has sinned too much, that it has become too corrupt, and that it has lost its moral capital and has nothing to fight with.
~ Saul Bellow
God gave us the Scriptures not just to inform or motivate us; more than anything he wants to save us.
~ Scott Hahn
For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
~ Scott Hahn
If you want to mark your covenant with God, to seal your covenant with God, to renew your covenant with God, you have to eat the Lamb—the paschal lamb Who is our unleavened bread. It begins to sound familiar. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you" (Jn 6: 54).
~ Scott Hahn
God does not will that any of us should ever sin. Yet his will is accomplished in spite of our sins, and even through our sins.
~ Scott Hahn
God is the eternal Father of Jesus Christ. And God is Father of those who live in Jesus Christ, through baptism.
~ Scott Hahn
Jesus é a única Pessoa a quem você tem de prestar contas. Quando você tem Jesus diante de si, o que é que consegue lhe dizer com a consciência tranquila?
~ Scott Hahn
What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.
~ Scott Hahn
The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.
~ Scott Hahn
Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.
~ Scott Hahn
So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.
~ Scott Hahn
Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.
~ Scott Hahn
Whoever strives in ceaseless toil, Him we may grant redemption
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And, though God may still forgive, Be damned on earth while you live!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Lord. Hast nothing for our edification? Still thy old work of accusation? Will things on earth be never right for thee? Mephistopheles. No, Lord! I find them still as bad as bad can be. Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em. The Lord. Knowest thou Faust?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aunque se reconcilien, siempre de la calumnia algo queda.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who ever exerts himself in constant striving, Him we can redeem.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~ Johathan Edwards
On going to hell…. "When I think of judgment day, I get emotional. It's a heavy thing. I did what I did and there's no erasing it. I can write an honest book, be an honest man, help little old ladies across the street but what's done is done. There's no escaping that. Whatever it is, I'll do my time, even for eternity.
~ John "Red" Shea