Quotes About Redemption

Crosses release us from this world, and by doing so, bind us to God. —Charles de Foucauld

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

she claimed it's a sign of God's mercy that He won't let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can't bear and won't let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back.

I wonder what people talk about who've destroyed their lives with addictions other than books and politics and money and war.

Inman felt like God's most marauded bantling.

To Ada, though, it seemed akin to miracle that Stobrod, of all people, should offer himself up as proof positive that no matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

No matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Blow freshly, freshlier yet, thou good trade-wind, of whom it is written that He makes the winds His angels, ministering breaths to the heirs of His salvation. Blow freshlier yet, and save, if not me from death, yet her from worse than death. Blow on, and land me at her feet, to call the lost lamb home, and die!

Receiving the grace of God never means that we continue with the way things were before. It separates us from the old; it never justifies the old. It embraces the new and calls the old into question.

We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus." —TEMPTATION

Faith means being held captive by the sight of Jesus Christ." —ETHICS

You are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are to God who loves you. He wants you as you are; he does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; he wants you alone. " —LIFE TOGETHER

Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame.

Dear God, I know that my sin has put a barrier between You and me. Thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus, to suffer the penalty of my sin by dying in my place so that barrier would be removed. I trust in Jesus alone for the forgiveness of my sins.

Trust that God is big enough to save anyone—even you.

John says, in effect, "In the beginning, God the Son created humanity and filled them with life. He then came to earth as a human to bring life again to humanity, which is spiritually dead because of sin.

Church is a gathering of nobodies to worship the only real Somebody: Christ, our Head. The King of creation, raised from the dead, seated with the Father, Commander of heaven, exercising complete authority over all time and space, perfect in His justice, infinite in His mercy, holy in His perfection, the only perfect Somebody who died for nobodies like you and me.

The Word didn't become flesh to establish a new religion. He became one of us to restore a broken relationship. He came to restore the true worship of God, which doesn't presume to earn His blessing through good deeds but rejoices in the unmerited favor He delights to give. Unfortunately, the roots of pride run deep into our flesh; therefore, the ability to accept grace does not come naturally, only supernaturally.

the word murderer, let me put it another way. We are not sinners because we have committed sins. We sin because we are sinners. The

Death is really no more than the voluntary liquidation of an economy of microscopic free agents, the redemption of the debt of structured life.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Helmet of Salvation

God is never absent so He need not be "summoned", nor do we possess the power to summon Him; the thing in need of summoning, and of redemption from ghaflah ("heedlessness") is the subtle spiritual attention of the Sufi to His Grace and His Presence.

I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out. I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed. I want to be entered and picked clean.