Quotes About Redemption

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

You pulled Sabrina over. You warned her off. You made yourself part of the crime. Now you can make it right for yourself and your family . . . but not by breaking into my house and pointing a gun at me. The way to redeem yourself, and spare your family a lot of pain and shame, is by helping me put those deputies behind bars.

said that when you die and go to heaven, you get your body back. I can finally get rid of this

All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.

These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53

If there was a level of hell filled with slutty women who made stupid mistakes, she would be their queen.

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.

Until Jesus died upon the cross and paid the price of man's sin, no human soul could enter heaven,

Someone has said that even the worst sinner spends more time doing things that are good and harmless than in doing things that are bad. In other words, there is some good even in the worst of us.

No matter what heroic acts I might perform, without God's grace I never could save myself.

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

Don't shoot me, Sidney, I love you." He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.

I have wrote my name in hell," Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

Jack turned red,I kinda let a princess die. His grandfather groaned. You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right? the old man asked. So I'm told.

Perhaps after all, for all our talk of change, redemption or personal growth, for all our dependence on therapists, religious faith or mood-altering drugs both legal and non, we're doomed simply to go on repeating the same patterns over and over in our lives, dressing them up in different clothes like children at play so we can pretend we don't recognize them when we look into mirrors.