Quotes About Redemption

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you're desperate for.

The only performance that matters is what Jesus Christ did at the Cross - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.

I was nothing more to him than a prison sentence, trapping him inside my walls and persecuting him for a crime he was tricked into committing.

Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda

How can you forgive what I

you're so afraid of everyone pitying you that you'd rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness" - Stacey Michaels

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

God loves you in spite of your mistakes

God is love—He is gracious and forgives.

ÅŸi v?zui un zbârc roÅŸ, Voia sângele s? i-l beie, Zilele s? i le ieie, Nici sângele n-ai s? i-l bei, C? eu cu acul oi descânta Cu m?tura oi m?tura, În trestie l-oi b?ga, Åži-n Dun?re l-oi arunca Åži Sanda de-acum o r?mânea Curat?!...

They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault?

La Mariche Loewen alça la mà. […] Diu que opina que el més importat no és preguntar-se si les dones són animals sinó si les dones s'han de venjar del mal que se'ls ha fet. O bé si han de perdonar els homes i, amb això, aconseguir que se'ls obrin les portes del cel.

And when the perpetrators return, the women of Molotschna will be given the opportunity to forgive these men, thus guaranteeing everyone's place in heaven. If the women don't forgive the men, says Peters, the women will have to leave the colony for the outside world, of which they know nothing. The women have very little time. Only two days, to organise their response.

I had an unusually deep need to be forgiven, even though I had done nothing wrong

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

This is why we believe in Jesus Christ—to help us see that we are not what we ought to be and to help us become what we ought to be.

If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

You are not your past.