Quotes About Redemption

Black is closing in around my eyes. I realize with a great, tired sadness that I am losing the world. The walls, the molding on the door frame, the yellow of the lamp, his back at the sink… are all achingly beautiful. I reach out and feel myself groping in the air, feel myself falling great distances, feel nothing at all. Suddenly, with a red rush I can breathe and I can see. I get up from the floor before he turns around and says, "You look flushed.

In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.

And the Lamb of God not only did this, but was chastised on our behalf, and suffered a penalty He did not owe, but which we owed because of the multitude of our sins; and so He became the cause of the forgiveness of our sins, because He received death for us, and transferred to Himself the scourging, the insults, and the dishonour, which were due to us, and drew down on Himself the apportioned curse, being made a curse for us.

forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

Jesus did not become the 'GodKlingon' or the 'GodMartian'! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God's Son remains the 'Godman' as our Savior.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Remember that lost time does not return.

I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.

'Bloodless' reminded me a bit of 'Les Miserables' when it first came out.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ's hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That's an impossible equation.

The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.

I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Repentance comes from the heart.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.