Quotes About Redemption

I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins.

I know people madly in love with cricket; they got hurt, and they now should trust me only because I want to give back their love for cricket by performing. I want them to trust me because they lost something because of me, and I want to give back with my whole heart and soul.

At the beginning of 'Solo,' Chewbacca is a stray dog from the streets who has been beaten. He is very guarded and not trusting of the outside world. When the situation arises, he calls upon the powers he has and can do amazing things.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

When God takes your straw, it isn't because he wants you to remain a slave. It's because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.

Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.

God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way.

Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The latter demands an effort, one with implicit sacrifice and hardship, one demanding all the higher qualities of what we call virtues.

And here is my secret. Heed this well. The weapon of the godless needs no hand to wield it. The weapon of the godless wields itself. It is without fear. It is empty of guilt and disdainful of retribution. It is all that and more, but one thing it is not: a liar. No slaying in the name of a higher power, no promises of redemption. It will not cloak brutality in the zeal that justifies, that absolves. And this is why it is the most horrifying weapon of all.

It may be that in the belief of the possibility of redemption, people willingly do wrong. Redemption waits, like a side door, there in whatever court of judgement we eventually find ourselves. Not even the payment of a fine is demanded, simply the empty negotiation that absolves responsibility.