Quotes About Redemption

His eyes opened when it was all over. You should have let me die. I couldn't, she said. He took my soul. No, love, he couldn't. Your soul is safe with me.

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.

He tried to formulate the words that might make her understand—might make her forgive him.

Joss] 'Poor unhappy wreck. I sometimes feel the best thing he could do would be to throw himself away and start afresh. But he won't be cross with me. Not with lovable old Weatherby. Did I ever tell you that I once saved him from drowning back in America? Stick your head through the transom and watch how his face lights up when I appear.'... 'Aha J.B.' said Joss sunnily. 'Good morrow.' 'Oh, you're there are you?' said Mrs. Duff.

The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.

that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows." Among

Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father.

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

If you're the new messiah, I'm going to be the one to drive in the nails

Angel , who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ...

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.

How was Frank ever going to achieve the big justification, which would take away all his guilt? He might never find a total justification, but he had to find an attitude. Every mistake in life, Tom thought, had to be met by an attitude, either the right attitude or the wrong one, a constructive attitude or self-destructive attitude.

The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.

Anne's mistake was not without consequence, but in admitting the mistake and seeking forgiveness, she allowed room for a

Many people think of Jesus as our Savior, as the one who will get us into heaven. So the question often is "Have I accepted Jesus as my Savior?" But we never ask the question "Have I accepted Jesus as my teacher?

Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Christians certainly aren't perfect. There will always be need for improvement. But there is a lot of room between being perfect and being "just forgiven" as that is nowadays understood. You could be much more than forgiven and still not be perfect.

God's care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16

Christ was not crucified so that we wouldn't have to be. He was crucified so we could be crucified with him.