Quotes About Redemption

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech. Suppose I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Raistlin made a mistake, a terrible, tragic mistake. And he did what few of us can do—he had courage enough to admit it and try to do what he could to rectify it, even though it meant sacrificing himself.

I atone in my heart for the mistakes I have made: the recklessness and irresponsibility, the laziness and dishonesty, the harm I have caused to myself or others. I pray for those who I may have hurt, and ask that they be healed of any pain I might have caused them. I vow to be a better person now, that I might rise where before I had fallen, and shine where I had dwelled in darkness.

His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.

Today I atone for the mistakes of my past.

we are punished by our sins, not for them. Your mistakes, no matter how bad you might think they were, did not emanate from your self as He created you. Thats why remembering who you truly are is the key to deliverance from the flames of self condemnation.

Dios no quiere castigarnos, sino sanarnos. Y

El ego se disipa y desaparece cuando lo entregamos a las manos de Dios. Son heridas, no maldad, lo que tenemos

El mundo ha impreso en nuestras psiquis su quebranto y su dolor. Y no tiene sentido intentar aliviar ese dolor hasta que sanemos nuestro desubicado sentido de herencia. No somos hijos del mundo; somos hijos de Dios. No tenemos que permitir que el insumo errado de un mundo cansado nos afecte como lo hace.

Debo haber decidido equivocadamente porque no estoy en paz. Yo mismo tomé esa decisión, por lo tanto, puedo tomar otra. Quiero tomar otra decisión porque deseo estar en paz. No me siento culpable porque el Espíritu Santo, si se lo permito, desvanecerá todas las consecuencias de mi decisión equivocada. Elijo permitírselo, al dejar que Él decida en favor de Dios por mí.»

A veces son necesarios nuestros errores para hacernos más humildes, y es entonces cuando somos más útiles para Él. Para Dios nunca somos mercancía defectuosa. Él convierte nuestras cicatrices en lunares que realzan nuestra belleza.

I know that many men are living in the tangles of sin, but too weak of will to break the net in which they have become voluntarily imprisoned.

There never was a Christian save One, and He was crucified.

Why would you want to go look for that wicked girl?" she asked. "Because I never thanked her," Lillian said, but she was really hoping for forgiveness.

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

If the Lord chooses to make nothing of our transgressions, then they are nothing. Or whatever reality they have is trivial and conditional beside the exquisite primary fact of existence. Of course the Lord would wipe them away, just as I wipe dirt from your face, or tears. After all, why should the Lord bother much over these snitches that are no part of His Creation? Well, there are a good many reasons why He should. We human beings do real harm. History could make a stone weep.