Quotes About Redemption

The real goal, however, was not to defeat the white man, but "to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.… The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community" where all men would treat each other as brothers and equals. "There are great resources of goodwill in the southern white man that we must somehow tap,

I think I received a new understanding of the meaning of suffering," he wrote Harold DeWolf, "and I came away more convinced than ever before that unearned suffering is redemptive." The imprisonment had not been pleasant, but he did feel that his faith had benefited from the experience.20

The Atonement allows us to grow,

nurturing and teaching the infant Savior of the world.

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH [Jesus Christ] is my strength and my song: he also is become my salvation.

I am the first, and I am the last [Jesus was chosen at the first, in the premortal existence, to be our Redeemer, and He will be around at the last, to be our Judge—see John 5:22]; and beside me there is no God [there are

10. THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN. Exodus 11:1–12:36

And like many a Christian before them, they completely forgot that the only sword-shaped weapon Jesus ever actually used was the one He died on.

If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death if Jesus returns to the earth during your lifetime).

Do you know why I believe in the Lord Jesus and what He says? Because He has proved to me that He has my best interests at heart. What could He do that He did not do? He already gave His life for us (Romans 5:8-10; 8:32)

They turn their attention back to Ella playing. As they look, April takes a deep breath, opens her mouth, and in a voice as clear as crystal, sings - Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now I'm found. Was blind but now I see.

You can't out-sin God's forgiveness.' What I believe that means, Tucker, is that God has more forgiveness than you have sins—no matter how many you have or how big you think they are.

glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee (Titus 2:11-15).

Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of.

I wasn't old enough to remember the day Daddy sent her there. The way he told it, she was stealing crank and spent most of her time climbing around the peter tree. So he sent her to this place. Loved her too much to give her nothing, but giving her anything at all squared things so he'd never have to love her again.

Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.

The secret to practicing resurrection is in giving away who we are and what we have—completely and wholly—to something greater than ourselves. It's in escaping from the circumstances and choices that entomb us and entering into new life here and now.

The sickness that's the price you pay for cure

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

What is the atonement of Christ? It is Himself: it is the inherent and everlasting mercy of God made apparent to human eyes and ears. The everlasting love was disclosed by our Lord's life and death. It showed that God forgives, because He loves to forgive. He works by smiles if possible, if not by frowns; pain is only a means of enforcing love.

Jesus is the only one who can show us without distortion the way to live and the truth to live by which lead us to life.

Chuck swore he would never leave him again so long as he lived. He lost his own sense of failure in making it up to London for the blow he had dealt him. London responded in a way far beyond anything Chuck could have expected. As a result, Chuck Eisenmann, with London, found a new career crowned by success beyond his highest hopes in the world of baseball.

FORD: That's right - and you said, when you've done something unforgiveable, forgive yourself, and that's what I've done, and it's done.