Quotes About Redemption

The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.

No," said Miss Giles. "I've become embittered. One can admit no worse failure than that can one?" "I think so," said John. "Embitterment shows a failure of humor, of humility, but not necessarily of tenacity. If you still know how to hold on you can still redeem what's lost.

Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

I might not have behaved the way I did. I might not have gotten drunk every night, slept around, done drugs, woken up in strange houses wondering where I was and what I'd done the night before.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

Not all angels come from Heaven,' Xas said. Then, 'I'm a fallen angel.

He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.

You could think a grackle was somebody you'd lost, or wronged, or owed a favor to, come back to settle accounts.

A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.

This had to be Hell.Well, my Hell, and funnily enough, my Hell was in a church, surrounded by people I—either do or did—love.

seeking to be free of something and freed to something.

Pain and blessings, deep wounds and healed scars, and, thank heaven, a God who could make sense of it all.

Before the trip I read that pilgrims often bring a small rock or stone from their home. It represents a burden they've been carrying or a loved one they are grieving or a sin for which they're doing penance. At some point on the Camino, they lay down that stone. The most popular place is at the Cruz de Ferro in Spain, the highest point on the Camino Frances.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

No wound. No scar? Yet as the Master shall the servant be, And pierced are the feet that follow Me, But thine are whole, Can he have followed far who has no wound, No scar?

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.

I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

God, come down out of the eucalyptus tree outside my window, and tell me who will drown in so much blood.

Speaking of this, he felt something had been returned to him, as though the inestimable losses of life had been lifted like a boulder, and beneath he saw - under the attentive gaze of Daisy's blue eyes - the comforts and sweetness of what had once been.

He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them.

Maybe you fall in love with people who save your life, even when you think it's not worth saving.