Quotes About Redemption

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

the Cross sets the world's history into the course of God's.

Can't a man blaze up in anger & make a mistake, then repent & be pardoned?

Quién nos redime del Enemigo íntimo, de ese cuya presencia es la terrible esperanza?

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone

A person who goes often to the temple or any worship place must have ample committed sins to be absolved of for oneself.

Taking a dip in water anywhere can only clean the body ,but could never cleanse the sins committed and that remains always in the soul.

all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.

She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

Så kom en til meg. En med vakkert hjerte og et vakkert smil. Hun tok med i hånden og ledet meg ut porten. Hun sa: Du kan jo nesten ikke gå, gutten min – hva har de gjort med deg der inne? Og sammen gikk vi ut i verden, og skrittene mine skalv. Men jeg lærte å snakke – litt etter litt kom ordene tilbake i guttens munn. Og jeg fylte dem med sang. Og meget smerte lå skjult bak denne sangen.

Bad men are full of repentance.

From my drive to be superior to others, deliver me. From the allure of the world's empty promises, deliver me. From my feelings of professional superiority, deliver me. From allowing my pride to supplant my love, deliver me. From the pains of withdrawing from my addiction, deliver me.

Far from frustration and depression, he finished out his life as a happy father and reinvented himself as a teacher.

From putting my career before the people in my life, deliver me. From distracting myself from life with work, deliver me. From my drive to be superior to others, deliver me. From the allure of the world's empty promises, deliver me. From my feelings of professional superiority, deliver me. From allowing my pride to supplant my love, deliver me. From the pains of withdrawing from my addiction, deliver me. From the dread of falling into decline and being forgotten, deliver me.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

It's always interesting when people are sort of broken. I think it's one of the most interesting qualities that human beings have is that broken people can fix themselves sometimes.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.