Quotes About Redemption

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There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

This is what we should in short seek in the whole of Scripture: truly to know Jesus Christ, and the infinite riches that are comprised in him and are offered to us by him from God the Father."122

Into the woods my Master went,Clean forspent, forspent.Into the woods my Master came,Forspent with love and shame.

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

God will find you," said the priest quietly. "Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.

Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God's mercy is not great enough? . . .

I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.

The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows—that was the visible sign.

For many enslaved Africans, the Bible only became an avenue of resistance because it was one of the few books available to Black folks in a white, Christian-dominated society that prohibited Black literacy. Reading the Bible and applying its lessons of redemptive suffering, salvation, and struggle aided African Americans in their revolutionary fight against the "contradictions" of chattel slavery in a so-called democratic nation.

But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

The exodus from the flood valley of the Nile, the end of foreign enslavement, was presented by the Bible writers as the condition of becoming fully Israelite.

Nu exista o alta ilustrare mai mare a bunatatii decat Crucea de la Golgota.Acolo,Domnul Isus a acceptat sa moara pentru pacatele mele.El S-a facut jertfa de ispasire pentru mine.Bunatatea Lui nemarginita mi-a dat dreptul sa ma fac copil al Lui Dumnezeu.

Redeeming social value, indeed.

Retribution

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks. Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood back in Chicago I worshiped him. "You don't want to hear my answer to that.

It would be cool if god gave every a do over day and you could yell, "do over!" and the day would start new. This would definitely qualify for a DOD.

Cómo me gustaría poder retroceder al año pasado y empezar de nuevo. La vida no te permite hacer eso. No es posible borrar el pasado, pero voy a tratar de hacer que otras personas lo olviden.

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.

The benefits of the gospel are in Christ. They do not exist apart from him. They are ours only in him. They cannot be abstracted from him as if we ourselves could possess them independently of him.

Here are wonders upon wonders: the Strong One is weak; the Infinite One lies in a manger; the Prince of Life dies; the Crucified One lives; the Humiliated One is glorified. Meekness and majesty, indeed! Behold, then, your newborn King! Come and worship Him!