Quotes About Redemption

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

People are hurting and looking for answers. The Gospel gives us hope.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

I don't like anything about 2013. Too many things have happened, including 'Bhai.' I lost my way. Sometimes it happens, and I definitely feel bad about it.

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.

Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

Christ is indeed the center of God's revelation, but for that very reason cannot be the startingpoint.

In one way fear is also God's daughter, redeemed on the night of Holy Friday. She is not beautiful to look at -- oh no! -- ridiculed at times, at others cursed, disowned by everyone ... and yet, make no mistake about it, she is present at every deathbed--she is man's intercessor.

What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If probation of final bliss he not accomplished or successfully achieved in one life, another life is entered upon, and then, if necessary, a third.

Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.

The Christian is taught to see in the bleeding Christ the victim slain in his own place; he himself should be hanging on that cross, agonised and dying; those nail-pierced hands ought to be his; the anguish on that face should be furrowed on his own; the weight of suffering resting on that bowed head should be crushing himself into the dust. In the simplest meaning of the words, Christ is the sinner's substitute, and on him the sin of the world is laid.

Being a Christ follower means being acquainted with sorrow. We must know sorrow to be able to fully appreciate joy. Joy costs pain, but the pain is worth it. After all, the murder had to take place before the resurrection

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

Two of the upstairs windows were boarded up, as if the house had closed its eyes in shame and whispered, Look what's become of me. As I stood surveying the property and wondering how it had come to such ruin, I realized that unless I pulled myself together and found a way to ground myself into my life, I could end up just as sad and empty as that old house.

You have to believe that, someday, you will be your own second coming.