Quotes About Redemption

Ask Jesus to live in you & fill you with His Holy Spirit, & thank Him that you're now God's child

Jesus, Your Word says that You came "to proclaim liberty to the captives" and "to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18).

Por cualquiera que sea la razón, el peso de la culpa se cierne sobre nosotros aplastándonos con fuerza demoledora, y a menos que sea eliminado, nos separa de la plenitud de la vida.

Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.

God is always waiting for us to come to Him, so we can be set free from anything that keeps us from becoming more like Him. To the children of Israel in bondage in Egypt, God said He saw their oppression, heard their cry, and knew their sorrows, so He came to deliver them (Exodus 3:7-8). Know that He will do the same for you.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. ROMANS 13:12

The deepest needs my lifetime through Were all met on the cross by You. What more could anyone do?

Know that once we have received Jesus, we can't continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.

it is not just any truth that sets you free. It is God's truth.

People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.

I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall – I dove.

Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

I went to stand beside him and looked in the same direction as he, and it seemed for an instant I saw the world as he did, orphaned and broken and staggeringly beautiful, a thing to be held and put back right.

Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

The day life turned into nothing this world could fix

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die. A lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. -Sue Monk Kidd

What is bound will be unbound. What is cast down will be lifted up. That is the promise of Our Lady.

The echo of one of God's deepest truths: delight can emerge from and exist along with our scars.

Jesus's capacity for mercy baffled me. I didn't know if I could give up the wrongs my father had done, the way I hauled them around like an ossuary of precious old bones. Jesus made it seem as if one could just lay them down.

Forgiveness was so much harder than being remorseful. I couldn't imagine the terrible surrender it would take

But he was Jesus, and I was Ana. I wasn't ready to let go of my animosity toward Judas. I would do so in time, but right now it saved me. It left less room inside for pain.

It is finished," Jesus said. There was a sound like a rush of wings in the blackish clouds, and I knew his spirit had left him. I imagined it like a great flock of birds, soaring, scattering, coming to rest everywhere.

having tried and failed to invent a better future for himself, in the end he invented a better past"178