Quotes About Redemption

The truth is, Archer tells me, you stay in Hell until you forgive yourself. You fucked up. Game over, he says, so just relax.

This is some­thing I'll go to Hell for.

Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?

If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive.

The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther your run, the more God wants you back.

What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

Imagine if Jesus chased you around, trying to catch you and save your soul.

If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive.

Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story

It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything." What I'm feeling

For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?

The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.

Imagine if Jesus chased you around, trying to catch you and save your soul. Not just a patient passive God, but a hardworking, aggressive bloodhound. We want the criminal to confess during the trial. We want him to be exposed in the drawing room scene, surrounded by his peers. The detective is a shepherd, and we want the criminal back in the fold, returned to us. We love him. We miss him. We want to hug him. Mona

By writing , people present their lives as fiction and tackle their issues as a craft exercise . By redeeming their protagonist , they find their own redemption .

Making others right redeems their paltry and pointless educations. Making others right makes them love you

Plainly and simply put, Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story.

He'd made nothing of his life, so the best he could imagine was to conceive another of himself. A do-over: Jimmy 2.0. As if to give himself a second shot, and doing so would shift the burden to this new him and give the current Jimmy permission to squander what was left of his years.

Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.