Quotes About Redemption

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."

Many of us were also taught that Jesus saves us from our pain and we're supposed to be "above it" instead of remembering Jesus entered pain directly—his own and the world's—to transform it.

Let us never be deceived into thinking that the magnitude of our sin negates His grace, for grace just abounds all the more.

I'm your Beloved, dammit! You're going to let me save your soul, and like it!

I want to be a destroyer that can save people..

Forgive me, Nea. What happened to you…was all my fault. But I must fulfill my role…as the Millennium Earl.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

God sent His Son—His only begotten Son, born of a virgin (and therefore without the sin that every human has at birth)—to die for our sins.

He resolved to never lose hope - not as long as breath was left in his body. And when death did come, he would release life in hope of the resurrection.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!

Someone once told me that writing is an act of faith. Another person told me that forgiving is also an act of faith. That's true. I think both heal, both are arts. What a fine thing it is to do both at once.

Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost.

Heaven Is An Orchard Though Its Roots Wind Down To Hell

marriage meant offering daily salvation to a man standing on the gallows

The work of redemption is applied to individuals definitively (in justification), progressively (in sanctification), and completely (in glorification). In the same way, the work of redemption is applied universally to the kingdom definitively (in its inauguration), progressively (in its expansion), and completely (in its consummation).

My life is full of broken halos.

Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.

When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

It's a reckoning I'm after.

God knows you have enough sins for a parish.

like a sin he'd refused to absolve.