Quotes About Redemption

God chose to teach me with the very things Satan had used to defeat me.

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

HBOS had robbed me of my marriage, my family, my businesses, my longstanding friend and business partner, my income, my investments, my self-respect, my reputation, my privacy, my physical and mental health. It cost me my security, my image rights, my collection of classic cars - and very nearly my life.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

I want to regain my name and my reputation and my life back.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn't really filter in to our thinking. We didn't realise it at the time - we were just making amends for 2005.

The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

In Heaven you forget everything. In Hell they make you remember.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

Greater is Your Spirit in me than anything else that tries to bring me down (1 John 4:4). You redeem my life from the pit and crown me with love and compassion (Psalm 103:4).

Whether it's something that happened as long ago as your early childhood or as recently as yesterday, the past can keep you from moving into all God has for you. That's why He wants to set you free from it.

But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. MATTHEW 6:15

Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced.

No matter what's going on in your life, remember that salvation isn't only something Jesus did for you; it's Jesus living in you.