Quotes About Redemption

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life.

Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . .

Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there's no use in trying." He

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

Jesus, some thought, would get a new lawyer.

Jesus came into this world and died on the cross to blow apart all the deceptive mental pictures of God that we've been enslaved to since the original fall and that lie at the root of all idolatry and sin

What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold

The crucified Christ, in short, gives us the "Magic Eye" to discern him in the depths of even the most horrifically violent portraits of God.

God wants everyone to be saved. He takes no delight in the destruction of any soul, however wicked (Ezek. 18:32; 33:11). From

The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[

The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.

Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, 'because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.' I knew those words by heart. I

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.

Be to, jei tikim?s, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko nelikt? nepasakyta... apie praeit?.

Gregory David Roberts