Quotes About Redemption

What we long for is perfection—in our works and in who we are. This is only possible through Jesus—Jesus lived the perfect life we can't, paid the penalty for our sins that we can't, and rose from the dead so that one day we will rise if we trust Him for the gift of eternal life. What needs to be done has already been done!

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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

And in answer the words trembled on his lips - the words which are surely the root of all human grief - so that he almost said aloud : 'Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Death smoothes the rough edges, obliterates the cruelties of the deceased. It makes heroes of monsters.

Doesn't it strike you that the one person I save every day is a person who doesn't even want to live? Doesn't it make you feel completely redundant?

Her heart was pounding, she was tired of thinking about it, tired of analyzing what on earth had happened, but she suddenly felt the need to repent, to apologize for everything she had ever done wrong just to feel worthy again.

Without the future there is no present," my father is saying. "Without the future there can be no hope for redemption, and without hope for redemption there is nothing. A man must plan for the future." Max smiles politely. That is the sort of talk, he once told me, he used to get from his own father. "They talk about redeeming the world for the future," Max said. "I have more modest goals. I wish only to redeem a canvas for today.

We have our faith. We have our work. Our work is to bring God into this world. Look what has been done to this world and its people in this Godless century. It is a horror. Our task is to redeem this horror. We cannot redeem it by offering people ambiguity." "I try to redeem it through my art." "An artist redeems through his art?" He seemed astonished by that idea. "Acts redeem, Asher. Acts." "Art is also acts.

Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist takes when he is ready to give up his art.

Did Harlequin have a line of books for guys-out-of-prison-get-redeemed romances?

I love Lady Stoneheart!

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

Being brought in with Absolution and our mentor, Paige, I think it's really cool, and really full circle since she was our judge on 'Tough Enough,' and she hated me. She was rough with me, but I get it.

Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.