Quotes About Redemption

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

The Shawshank Redemption' isn't a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends - it's a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that's the purpose of storytelling.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

You realize that Christ didn't die for you because you had good qualities that were worth saving. He died for you because you had bad qualities that left you without a prayer.

Home to the two boys and wife he'd run away from seven years before. One

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

Evil dies tonight!

Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.

We must look at the facts squarely, not to flounder in a bitter nostalgia of pain but to redeem a democratic promise rooted in the living ingredients of our own history.

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

The law of Moses, properly understood, points beyond itself both backwards toward the Abrahamic covenant and forward toward its final fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

For works do not drive out sin, but driving out of sin produces good works.

It is certain that one must utterly despair of oneself in order to be made fit to receive the grace of Christ.

There is no greater sin than not to believe this article of "the forgiveness of sins" which we pray daily in the [Apostles'] Creed. And this sin is called the sin against the Holy Spirit.

They cannot be humble who do not recognize that they are damnable and stinking sinners.

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