Quotes About Redemption

The remedy for evil is Jesus.  The remedy for death is Jesus.  The remedy for sin is Jesus.  When in doubt, Jesus. 

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

no es justo publicar las faltas del pasado de una persona, ignorando si se ha corregido.

This was his plan of amends — of atonement — for inheriting their father's estate;

I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

1 thought my entire life was coming apart, but 1 think 1 just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, instead, it was heavy, cumbersome, a new debt, a currency that was continuously renewed no matter how much was paid out.

The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

And the world must always seem to be either the Garden of Eden, from which he is about to be expelled, or a circle in hell, into which he has wandered like Dante or Orpheus only to find that he can't get out.

War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.

I'm sorry. I would have to disagree. The most important thing is getting right with the Lord, and then he

Laura's gossip was redeemed by its lack of spite. She was warmly objective about every event, taking endless delight in action and complexity, as if she had been bed-ridden in a small windowless room for years and was just now discovering the dramatic possibilities of daily life. She sang Alice through the day.

Well, Jesus never did a single bad thing, but when he was crucified, he made up for all the bad things that other people had done. That's why he was crucified.

Holy Crap,' Carolli said. 'You shot Jesus. That's gonna take a lot of Hail Marys.

If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

The damned could be saved...anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love. I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

The damned could be saved, he said, anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love.

Why is this important? Because it means the division between God and man has been abolished.

Thank you, Lord, I prayed, for turning something bad into something good.

you of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so.

I was stripped to the very essence of my being. He saw all my lies and my failures and all my sinful ways. And yet he loved me still.