Quotes About Redemption

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Everyone who tortured me and kidnapped me, who imprisoned me, I have forgiven everyone. And I wish them, from the bottom of my heart, the best of lives.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.

I think that Roseanne can find her way through to apologize to the community, to apologize to the people she offended most, and move on with her life. To think that she can't is almost totalitarian.

GOTHAM'I SEV?YORUM VE ARTIK JOKER'IN YAPTIKLARINI TELAF? ETME ZAMANIM GELD?. BU ?EH?R S?ZDEN, JOKER'DEN VE KARA ?ÖVALYE'DEN DAHA ?Y?S?N? HAK ED?YOR. ??TE BU YÜZDEN BEN, BU ?EHR?N BEYAZ ?ÖVALYE'S? OLACA?IM.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.

She was trying to wash the violence off of him.

Mientras Hitler pretendía instituir un Reich milenario a través del genocidio de todos los judíos, en Turingia había un tal Lamberty que aspiraba a lo mismo mediante bailes populares, canciones y cabriolas en general. Cada redentor tenía su propio estilo. Nada ni nadie resultaba sorprendente; la capacidad de asombro era algo que habíamos perdido hacía ya tiempo.

Saint Marx, in whom one had always believed, had not helped. Saint Hitler was obviously more powerful. So let's destroy the images of Saint Marx on the altars and replace them with images of Saint Hitler. Let us learn to pray: "It is the Jews' fault" rather than "It is the capitalists' fault." Perhaps that will redeem us.

To die, one must first have been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.

How do you honor a witch who betrayed you?

To die, one must have first been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.

his enemies would make him suffer even more for the pain he had caused so many before he became a beast.

Countless stories like this have been told over the years, and how do they end? Always in misery for the wicked queen or witch, always with death. And always she was wronged in some way, by something or some person who set her on this path.

Only one thing comforted him: he had finally learned what it was to love. And the feeling was deeper and more meaningful than anything he'd felt before. He felt like he was dying. To die, one must have first been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.

A good writer should be able to communicate to the reader, 'I know your life. I know what you have truly experienced. It's not right or wrong. It's survival. It's making mistakes, and trying to redeem yourself. It's imperfections, and trying to make yourself better. It's outrages, and crimes, and insults, which often are not righted, which you have to fix yourself, in your own mind, in your own heart, so that you are not poisoned'.

Freedom is only available through Death!

Nothing kills a vampire as quickly as the past.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his act as sacrilege; but even if he was betraying them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him now in a different way from before. Everything that had taken place until now had been necessary to bring him to this love. 'Even now I am the last priest in this land. But Our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of him.