Quotes About Redemption

It is often the victim's fate to be victimized a second time by the moral neediness of his former victimizer. One can chalk up many of black America's problems since the 1960s precisely to this phenomenon. The larger society around us—having acknowledged its abuse of us—wants to take charge of our fate in order to redeem itself, thus smothering us in social programs and policies that rob us of full autonomy all over again.

You have been treated with a severe mercy. You have been brought to see (how true & how v. frequent this is!) that you were jealous of God. So from US you have been led back to US AND GOD; it remains to go on to GOD AND US.

Thus we were perfectly aware that the central claim of Christianity was and always had been that the same God who made the world had lived in the world and been killed by the world; and that the (claimed) proof of this was His Resurrection from the dead.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

But I think you are already in the meshes of the net! The Holy Spirit is after you. I doubt if you'll get away!

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Third time pays for all

I lost my way for a long time.

I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I'd been wrong, but that didn't soften the blow.

If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented

The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God

You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

I'm not a Christian because I'm strong and have it all together. I'm a Christian because I'm weak and admit I need a Savior.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.