Quotes About Redemption

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther

I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin

And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? —NIETZSCHE

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him

The Divine Comedy.

el autosacrificio de un hombre joven para redimir los pecados de su pueblo aparece en la tradición de Quetzalcóatl

Cuando la causa es sagrada, el perdón de Dios está garantizado"

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther had

Jesús soportó el dolor en la cruz durante tres días!»

I pictured the sea as calm and motionless, no land to be seen in any direction. I have made a mistake, I thought. I need another chance. If I could only start over, I thought.

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future.

Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.

beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.

Being born again doesn't mean that you've arrived somewhere, said Dave. It means you're ready to start the trip. The pilgrimage to more places of power, the doomed quest to keep the people and things you love from being caught by the weeds and dragged under.

How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction! How can He sweeten the bitterest providences, and give us cause to praise Him for dungeons and prisons! What a table was here spread for me in a wilderness where I saw nothing at first but to perish for hunger!

How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into. 

for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.

how frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!

I added this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.

How frequently in the Course of our Lives, the Evil which in it self we seek most to shun, and which when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very Means or Door of our Deliverance, by

yet nothing but divine revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of redemption purchased for us; of a Mediator of the new covenant, and of an Intercessor at the footstool of God's throne; I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form these in the soul;