Quotes About Redemption

In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?

whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.

For the Creator, the past is never lost, never beyond recovery—because it can always be reclaimed by weaving it into a wider pattern of ultimate goodness so that even the most horrendous disasters of life may come to play a significant part in achieving the intended purpose of Creation. In this way, the past can be redeemed.

If you have made mistakes in life there's always another chance with Cosmic Ordering.

Most of the pubs had barred Des, but he came in to the Tiger bar and he points to me and says, 'And you, out! I want you by the back of the car park.' So I obliged him and proceeded to kick the poor cunt all around the car park, he ended up in hospital for a week! Eventually, when he came out of hospital he said that I was the best thing that had happened to him, I'd cured him!

All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!!

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires that you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked-the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

In order to understand great grace, you have to understand your great need. In order to understand God's lack of anger, you have to understand how much you deserve the anger of a holy God. In order to understand great mercy, you have to know that you need it. As

introduced Doc to the miracle of morphine. From that very first shot it was as if he'd discovered the one vital ingredient that God had left out when He'd sent Doc kicking and screaming into the cold, cruel world.

There is no greater expression of love than the cross.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." Take that thought

The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don't finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.

The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.

The truth is, we in our own resources cannot forgive. However, since Christ is our life and lives in us, we realize that forgiving is what we as holy, righteous, and loving people do. It is our very nature to do so.

The Birthright of a Child of God God has already provided everything we need to be free in Christ

The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.

We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).

The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.

Thanks be to God that Christ has set us free!

In Christ, we are a new creation and are defined by His Life, not our bad behavior!

But the final act of the Gospel is death: death at the healed hands of the lepers, called for by the mouths of the ones whose tongues were loosed, watched by the eyes opened by His touch. And if we intend to follow His steps, live according to the Gospel, and show love to sinners, we must be willing to die by their hands. And you will. You will.

She prefers to think she became a better woman. But she has hurt her sister, and she knows it. The fact that she did it to save herself is no excuse. Nor is the knowledge that she's only done what writers do. A novelist is just a cottonmouth with a laptop.