Quotes About Redemption

God shows those in hell all the love they are willing to accept: his justice. To us on earth, God shows his loving mercy. To those in heaven, God shows his face, which is beyond all imagining, the face of love that has no limit and never ends.

Jesus Christ is the end of the ages, the axis of time. In him, the salvation which is the future that God has in store for us has already broken into time.

On the cross, Jesus overcame sin. On the evening of the day he rose from the dead, Christ gave his apostles power to forgive sins. In the Sacrament of Penance, through the ministry of the Church, Christ releases the power of Easter into our lives.

Our love can be no more partial than Jesus' love for all those he died to save

The devil is the source of temptation, but succumbing to temptation is our own doing. Only if we come face to face with our own sinfulness, do we begin to be grateful for the power of God's forgiveness. Only if we recognize the connection between sin and death, do we begin to probe the meaning of Christ's death and resurrection. Only if we experience the evil we have done, do we begin to understand how God has brought redemption out of loss, love out of hatred.

Are you troubled by demons of fear or doubt? Submit those areas to God, repenting of your unbelief, and then yield yourself to Christ's faith within you. Are you troubled with spirits of lust and shame? Present those very areas of sin to God, repent of your old nature and draw upon the forgiveness of Christ and His purity of heart.

Once we have found this secret place in God, nothing we encounter in life can truly defeat us; God Himself preserves us in all things. In every distress or devilish plot aligned against us, we emerge as "more than conquerors" (Rom. 8:37, KJV). In God's shelter, the redemptive power of Christ reverses the plans of Satan, annulling both the assault of the enemy and its aftereffects.

PC advocates appear to defend the absurd because they see history as a series of unprosecuted crimes that can only be redeemed if we are appropriately sensitive to the legacy of the victims.

For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.

All which I took from thee I did but take,Not for thy harms,But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;I fled Him, down the arches of the years;I fled Him, down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind; and in the mist of tearsI hid from Him, and under running laughter.

He sido malo por muchos caminos y habiendo dejado de ser malo, no soy bueno, porque he dejado el mal de cansado y no de arrepentido.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

TAL HAD TO laugh. Hardly presentable! Wasn't it strange, the way humans looked at themselves with eyes of flesh and not of the Spirit? Certainly that dear woman had been through mire and filth of every degree; she was scarred, exhausted, ragged, and dirty. But to the angels, she appeared as God Himself saw her, just as any other redeemed saint of the living God: pure, shining, clean, dressed in garments as white as snow.

Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin...but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves.

Our image of God-the-judgmental-deranged-monster badly needed fixing. Jesus came to edit our ideas.

Jesus' co-suffering love is the best lens through which to consider God, or at least to reconsider ourselves.

It doesn't matter how great your sins are; God's grace is big enough to forgive and cleanse them.

the One who touched lepers and dead bodies wasn't afraid of getting His holy hands dirty with the problems of this fallen world.

Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Wer mir den Glauben an die Menschen zurückgibt, gibt mir mein Leben zurück.

I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.