Quotes About Redemption

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

It seems almost as if you want me to reject you. As if you wish to be saved from yourself.

A great deal of good had happened. The past had been explained and forgiven. The bitterness of years had been purged. There could be some peace now for two people because he had come home.

For Allie would suffer for what she had done this night. And he would be the last person on this earth who could comfort her.

I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.

After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his soul, said you could judge prayer worthwhile simply if you could act more decently, think more clearly afterward. As D.W. once told him, "Son, sometimes it's enough just to act less like a shithead.

His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.

If pain and injustice and undeserved misery are part of the package, and God knows they are, then surely the life of Christ is God's own answer to Ecclesiasticus! Redeem the suffering. Embrace it. Make it mean something.

Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to rever any pinpoint of light now.

But because of you, I couldn't die and couldn't monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue—not a good job for somebody barely three feet tall. Blameless

Then it hits me. I'm actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings did I worship at this altar, emptying myself of poison. And yet to pray to something above me, something invisible, had—before now—seemed degrading.

Therefore, dark past, I'm about to do it. I'm about to forgive you for everything.

When men sell their souls, where do the souls go?

I saw the difference between doing nothing, or doing a little, and the redemptive act of true effort. Reading, then writing, then desiring to write well, shaped in me that most joyful of circumstances—a passion for work.

We have to bring back his eye by the