Quotes About Redemption

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Is a rope around the neck and a drop from the gallows all that we can do for a guy who lived his life without ever smiling? ~ Inoue

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

To Carthage I came, where all about me resounded a caldron of dissolute loves.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

The Dark Night of the Soul.

Lord Jesu, blessed Pelican.

Jesus didn't come just to save our souls; He came to redeem every part of our lives.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Quien no siente el deseo de volver a vivir la vida es porque la ha desperdiciado.

The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.

There is nothing in the Christian life that is "post" gospel!

Paul is not impressed with faith. What moves him is faith "in Christ Jesus

But we must never read such promises, or anything in the Old Testament, as if Jesus had not come and the New Testament had not been written.

the Old Testament must always be read in light of the New. I never read such Old Testament texts without immediately asking, "Does the New Testament shed additional light on how I am to understand the nature of such promises and their recipients?

Mechanical testing tempts us with the false promise of efficiency. It whispers that there is an easier, less costly, more scientific way. But the truth is that blackening circles only prepares students to blacken more circles in the future. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be redeemed from our craziness.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us that.

You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.

I know no sweeter way to heaven, than through free grace and hard trials together, and one of these cannot well want another.

Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.