Quotes About Redemption

God's power, it turns out, comes in God's willingness to abdicate power. God saves the world through submission to the point of solidarity with human weakness. Jesus' final teaching to his disciples was to wash their feet and then tell them to go and do likewise, to act as servants to the world. Too often, Christians have done just the opposite.

the crucifixion of Jesus, while violent, must be the key to ending violence.

on the cross, just moments before his death, Jesus cries out in anguish and dereliction, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" That is the pivot point of all cosmic history, for in that moment God became fully human. Only when God felt abandoned, alone in the universe, did God gain total empathy with the human condition.

Possibly the most famous quote in all of Orthodox theology comes from Athanasius (c. 293–373), who in his book, On the Incarnation, wrote of Christ, "For he was made man so that we might become God.

I pray for God to crush me, break me up into little pieces and start all over again.

I smile sadly, in light of what came next to think that I told her If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve she made me a liar, too-- the woman who dug the hole I've been trying to write myself out of ever since

The heroin I bought last night was so-so at best, but I dumped a lot into my wake up shot and managed to find a decent vein in my ankle. The dope flooded my bloodstream and I could feel normality returning: my aching muscles relaxed, the ice unthawed around my bones, my jangling nerves subsisted. I looked at my watch; it was 6:30 a. m. Another perfect fucking day had begun.

He had been vaguely pinning his redemption on the upcoming eclipse, hoping for something somehow transformative, or at least something greater than a wow and brow-furrowed appreciation of celestial mechanics.

No te preocupes por ellos -le decía a Dios- por... por... porque... todos son equi... equi... ¡eso es!... equivocaciones tuyas. Son los ren... renglones torci... torcidos, de cuando apren... apren... ¡eso es!... aprendiste a escribir. ¡Los pobres locos son tus fal.. faltas de orto... ortografía!

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.

I'm no preacher, but I do know that God doesn't strip away His love when we make mistakes.

He told me I could go on being a lost sinner, living my life as I chose, ignoring the offer of eternal life and the peace that only God could give me. But, he told me, You will literally have to step over the broken, bleeding, nail-pierced body of Jesus in order to enter the gates of hell.

Doesn't do a body any good to withhold forgiveness. The devil is the only one who stands to gain anything

It was time to lay his painful life upon the altar and let Jesus heal his hurt. It was time to come home.

God knows I've needed enough forgivin' in my life. I love you, and love sometimes comes in pain as well as joy.

She didn't want to. She loved you. She loves you now. Yes, she hurt you and she made a terrible mistake in leaving you. But your father made mistakes, too, and you will, as well. We all make bad choices - decisions that would better be left to rot in the bottom of the barrel. But we can't undo them. We can only move forward.

God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good.

We can't remake the past, but God holds our future in His hand, and there's always a place to begin anew.

Given in love. Defiled by remorse.

And what would we do, you and I, if we could know for sure That someone was there squinting through the dust, Saying nothing is lost, that everything lives on waiting only To be wanted back badly enough?

Milligan now acted as if he were the happiest man alive - and perhaps he was. Having so long ago exited his life as a father, he had now, at long last, entered it again.

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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.