Quotes About Redemption

Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I'm trying. I'm really trying, and that will be enough.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Similar to how God led Israel into the Promised Land, now he is adding all people who believe in Jesus to the spiritual membership of the spiritual Promised Land. The New Jerusalem will be revealed at the second coming of Jesus (Revelation 3:11-13; 21:2). Through Adam we experience our physical bodies and death, but in Jesus the Christ (Messiah), we will be raised to live forever! The Bible states:

Part of Owen lives inside him, because he had stolen it. Only by giving it back could Owen be restored, but Shem was physically incapable of achieving that at present. He had forgotten how to give.

So I get a second chance?" "You haven't used up the first one yet.

At one time, he had been prepared to sacrifice the boy, but Daniel believed the reality of Shemyaza, as an ideal, and had forgiven him for the deeds of Peveral Othman.

Valraven Palindrake must seek the way of light, for only then can past wounds be healed.

As he ran, he stripped off his uniform, unaware of the cold. The Magravandian cloth and leather burned him like gall. It was a symbol of all that destroyed him.

He looked tired and stooped and Daniel thought with some discomfort that all he lacked was a crown of thorns.

She'd have to get Shemyaza away from this place before what was left of him was destroyed.

Brinorah felt she could rub her hands together and a scale of evil would fall from her in flakes, a taint she had not accepted intentionally, but which she was aware had besmirched her as much as any other who had stood by and allowed Alomeah her bloody free rein.

You are like a character from a story, who has strayed from the path, but strives for redemption.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be; But by the grace of God I am not what I was.1

We can agree with what the gospel says about our sinfulness without becoming overwhelmed by guilt and shame. Further, we do not have to prove that we are victims rather than victimizers out of a desperate effort to persuade ourselves that we are righteous. We have Christ's righteousness already. We can rest in this.

All that is true about our God, and made true for us through the Gospel of Christ needs to come to life when we are troubled, tempted, or we sin.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.

GOOD FRIDAY Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him.

I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.

Everyone has that chance to get one thing right, that's the second chance. If you take the second chance as your last chance. You will do wonders my friend. Sungani A simbaya

But there I was, in street clothes, walking into the California Institution for Women, knowing I'd be able to walk out. As I passed through the doors into the yard, I felt a rush of emotion. I was here with purpose, in possession of my dignity, my individuality, my own power—all the things that had been stripped from me the last time I stood in this yard.

A criminal history was like a credit card with interest—so what if you paid off the balance, the interest still kept accruing. And accruing and accruing and accruing.

When I left the parole building that day, it was the first time in two decades that I was no longer in the clutches of the U.S. justice system.