Quotes About Redemption

No, you don't destroy the rich—you do as Jesus did, and convert them.

Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself. Imagine your birth as an act of pouring yourself forth into life as a loving means of redemption. Imagine your human life as what you have come to redeem. And when you've fully awakened to all of it, then you've fully redeemed your human incarnation.

The truth, I would suggest, is that you poured yourself willingly into form out of infinite love in order to redeem the entirety of this life. When seen from that perspective, all of a sudden life looks very different. You stop holding back from life, your inner life or the life around you, because the kingdom of heaven is within and all around you. That's the message of the Jesus story.

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Old sins have long shadows.

Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen.

Eski günahlar?n gölgesi uzun olur

I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.

Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras

?ncil okuyordu. 'Günahkârlar kendi eserleri olan bata?a batacaklar! Gizlenmek için örmü? olduklar? a?lar, kendi ayaklar?na tak?lacak. Tanr?, varl???n? kullar?na adaleti ile belli eder. Kötüler sonunda cezalar?n? kendi kendilerine bulacaklar. Günahkârlar?n yeri cehennemdir!

Günah?n seni daima izler bunu unutma.

Old sins have long shadows," quoted Poirot. "As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.

Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.

In the Bible, man is only free to submit or be damned. His one freedom is the renunciation of that freedom. He finds his "salvation" by freely accepting his subjugation. The Christian ideal, says Saint Paul, is to be freely "subservient to God" (Romans 6:22).

Spiritual victory is not something you earn - it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done - it's about what Christ has done. It's not so much about how strong you are - it's about how strong God is.

We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.

To accept God's free gift of righteousness also means at the same time to accept a new lordship over the life.

as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.

Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules's) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile, who bore reproaches, who would not hear of forcing people, who ate at anyone's table, who declined to call for massive angelic intervention, who rejected the avenging sword, who healed the servant of his enemy, and thereby "cursed for all time the works of the sword.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

He died for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. There wasn't one lovely or good thing in any of us that could draw out love from the heart of a holy Savior—there was everything to repel. Yet the infinite God, the altogether lovely One, whose ideal of love surely is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, whose capacity for love is beyond our understanding altogether, He loved us and gave Himself for us.

All of the Lord Jesus Christ is mine at the moment of conversion, but I possess only as much of Him as by faith I claim.