Quotes About Redemption

You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

Most of the prophecies explicitly or implicitly incorporate some hope for the nations—for instance, by escaping judgment or finding mercy after judgment.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

What is the homeland to which we are running? Christ said: "I am the Truth." You run through Him, you run to Him, and you rest in Him.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

Help me, Lord, I'm slipping through. Help me, Lord, I'm falling. I'm being pulled in to a dense black hole from which there's no returning. It's yawning wide; it's sucking me in, but there's nothing to see. It's black as sin. Help me, Lord, I'm sinking down. Help me, Lord, I'm drowning... Adrian Rumble

Death, and every death, is the fruit of sin: death temporal, death spiritual, death eternal.

My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, again wear this light crown, be it ever so ignominious?

To which the father replied, a good christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

When Jesus said 'THIS do in remembrance of ME,' he was contrasting the New Covenant, and its remembrance sign, with the Old Covenant and its remembrance sign. He was saying, "Instead of keeping the sabbath in remembrance of the old creation and Israel's redemption, THIS do in remembrance of me and the deliverance I have accomplished at Calvary." In other words, remember and think about what the new creation is and how Christ brought it about.

Any discussion of the Ten Commandments that in any way separates that phrase from the 'words of the covenant' written on the tables of stone and given to Israel at Sinai does not follow the scriptural pattern for use of those terms. We must read these verses carefully and listen to what they say in order to understand correctly the nature, place and function of the Ten Commandments in the history of redemption.

it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...

you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...