Quotes About Redemption

Grace meant God knew her past and still offered her a beautiful future. An unbreakable happy ending.

I know grace is difficult to accept... it's in our nature to want to bargain for our redemption... but you can do nothing but receive it.

So plan A is a bust. God can make plan B better than plan A ever would have been." Plan B. Or even plan C.

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

God's already forgiven you. You need to forgive yourself and let God love you. Be His child, and embrace His grace. You can't create your own heaven on earth. That's His job. If you try to do it yourself, you'll never experience the love of God fulfilling your wildest dreams.

He's more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He's the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn't take.

war has a way of absolving us of the mistakes we make while in its dreadful shadow, but it keeps this absolution a secret.

It's not a punishment. It's the place where mercy and justice meet.

Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

Sejanus. "My friend, your life has just begun!" And then Coriolanus was laughing; they both were. "So this isn't our ruin?" "I'd call it our salvation.

I want to interrupt the taping and beg Finnick's forgiveness for every false thought I've ever had about him.

I don't know how I got Michael. Maybe I just had a store credit from some other very lonely and shitty life.

I knew there was a good man inside somewhere. I'd known him, and I'd loved him. I believed he loved me, too, but I brought out the worst in him. I

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember- God permits U-turns

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

I have kept no secret about my time growing up in Miami, U.S.A., and landing in trouble and going to prison for sometime. I talk about that a lot and I use that to encourage young people to not make the mistakes that I did, or, if you have made some bad decisions, it is not the end of your life. I hold myself as an example.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.