Quotes About Redemption

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible!

It all comes down to you and Jesus.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

For the passage time cannot undo the crime of murder, since the victim is gone of from mortal reach and has no tongue or sign to forgive the one who wronged him.

I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar

Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.

he was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.

All my sins were trapped between its covers. And the damn thing just wouldn't go away. I'd tried to escape culpability, and my culpability had had the nerve to take on a life of its own and hunt me.

Regret is poison that kills the soul.

After an eternity of grief and regret, he held the only thing he'd ever wanted as much as he wanted to be God. A second chance.

What if I told you that when you kiss me, lass, I doona feel cursed? That mayhap your kisses could save me. Would you?

I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother.

I remember the look on Barrons's face when I stumbled, horrified, down the stairs, great black wings trailing the risers, and he must have felt what happened, because he was rushing up the stairs to find me.

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn't wasting another minute. He wanted to experience everything he had missed, to eat and drink and read and work and fuck as he pleased. His dreams were smaller now, but they were still dreams, and he was going after them with everything he had.

got a kick in the ass from one of our clients. He'd lost his sight in an accident—hard enough, but he was a surgeon. His career, in his mind, was over." "Was it?" "Of course not. He couldn't do surgery, but he could other things. Over time, and with a lot of nagging, he began to accept that. He restarted his life, reinvented himself." "You saved him." She shook her head, embarrassed. "No. I was just his friend.

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.