Quotes About Redemption

On the cross Jesus paid our debt in full. There is no karma to face—Christ's work is sufficient. Christians have this message of joy and hope for our Hindu friends, who would agree: there's absolutely nothing funny about karma.

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

The God who loved us enough to die for us when we cared nothing for him is not about to shortchange us in life.

Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

O was happy that René had had her whipped and had prostituted her, because her impassioned submission would furnish her lover with the proof that she belonged to him, but also because the pain and shame of the lash, and the outrage inflicted upon her by those who compelled her to pleasure when they took her, and at the same time delighted in their own without paying the slightest heed to hers, seemed to her the very redemption of her sins.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India they use the word "karma" for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

I want to believe that it is wonderful to be free. Free again. Ready to find my one true love, who is waiting for me and who will never allow e to experience such humiliation again.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

But we two have to live with our mistakes.

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

What good is trying to reform if you have to spend the rest of your life paying for the stupid things you did when you still got high and didn't give a damn?

Among them was a man who had killed people in the Vietnam War and was tortured by self-loathing and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa told him, "That was then. This is now. You can always connect with your true nature at any time and be free of everything that went before.

Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.