Quotes About Redemption

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

I shot you, all right, he said, and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too. What? I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as too late in life.

You're not getting it, Eddie gently replied. I needed to save you. It let me make up for the life I took. That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

Rum Rosh. It's in Psalms, the original Hebrew. It means 'God lifted my head

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For those were my children,too." What do you think of that? the teacher asks us. Someone else answers. But I know what I think. I think it is the first time I've heard that God might love the enemy as well as us.

We adults can be a wretched lot Chika, yet in every child's face we see the Lord has not given up on us.

Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy

Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.

Forgive yourself ... Then use this grace to spread my spirit

I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.

That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

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I know I cannot do this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves." Ourselves? "Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am.

And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God's happy.

We are blinded by our regrets. We don't realize who else we punish when we're punishing ourselves.

That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.