Quotes About Redemption

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

Do you understand Christ to be more like an ox (excuse us, three oxen) or more like a door?

I would say that grace is startling," Jean told me as he began retelling the story of how he wound up as pastor of Lagniappe Presbyterian Church, a growing congregation that meets in a glorified metal hangar in Bay St. Louis. "It's just startling. It isn't supposed to work. This wasn't supposed to work.

No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in life—and pain and trouble come to all of us—no matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.

My peace, my companionship," Olivia said softly, "come from my surety that the Lord loves me. Surety that because I've asked, believing He's redeemed me, He's also forgiven me and accepts me—now, as I am. He lives inside me, walks beside me, in the form of His Holy Spirit. He holds my heart, my life. He is my heart, my life." As

It isn't because of who I am, Maureen. It's because of who He is and what He's done—what He longs to do in you!

Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.

She believed that each humble thing, if done worthily, might be touched by grace. I hoped it might be so, for it would require an abundance of grace to clean me of my sin.

He instructed me how futile it is to wallow in regret for that which cannot be changed and how atonement might be made for even the gravest sins.

For sin, too, must always start with but a single misstep, and suddenly we are hurtling toward some uncertain stopping point. All that is sure in the descent is that we will arrive sullied and bruised and unable to regain our former place without hard effort.

Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:

I say that we are woundWith mercy round and roundAs if with air.

I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, andThis Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,Is immortal diamond.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Als u de mensheid hebt verlost, waarom mij dan niet - dat was toch in één moeite door gegaan?

When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this world, he took pity on us. When we were helplessly wallowing about in the blood and water of our birth, crying out for food, for care, he saw us, nodded and reached toward us. When we could have been left to die, when we could have been sold as slaves, the Father said, "Mine!" He took us in his arms and claimed us.

The night before his crucifixion, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail" (Luke 22:31-32). We get shredded. We get eaten up. We get disgraced. We get left. We think we are going to die. But then something amazing happens. We cry out to Jesus and then realize he has already been praying for us! His faithfulness upholds us.

Christ came to redeem us from under the laws of frail, fickle human love on which no one can depend,

For his redemption, man has nothing to contribute to God other than the readiness of unconditional surrender. The passive acceptance inherent in woman, which ancient philosophy regarded as purely negative, appears in the Christian order of grace as the positively decisive factor. The Marian dogma, reduced to a brief formula, denotes the doctrine of the cooperation of the creature in the work of redemption.

Gerechtigkeit ist nur in der Hölle, im Himmel ist Gnade, und auf Erden ist das Kreuz.

Only God can heal a wounded soul. He is able to repair what is deemed irreparable.

As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.

Stand as far away from me as you can And ask me why Hang on to your rosary beads Close your eyes to watch me die You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it God, but did you ever try To turn your sick soul inside out So that the world So that the world Can watch you die

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.