Quotes About Redemption

Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.

Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford." "Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women—changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance.

_You're not a thief. Not anymore._ If he said it often enough, it might stick.

Bagaimanapun orang-orang yang punya dosa tidak akan berhasil. Mereka selalu jatuh ke dalam air - St. Petrus

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

Real love—it's the best, most painful thing God ever did for us.

You need to forgive yourself. You need to believe what you did is not more powerful than what God can do from this point forward.

The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. 'That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you'd die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?' To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile. A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity.

I have a lot of sympathy for Gollum. By Claire Davis, author

but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done,

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life. Whatever suffering he was now to meet was a long way from what the girl at his side had already endured, and might yet surpass.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

So the resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our no for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he, himself, has now established permanent, eternal residence on earth.

Qué buscas? preguntó. No sabría decirlo susurré: el perdón la mandala ese perdón que es mío y no puedo otorgarme que camina conmigo y no viene de fuera ese perdón arisco que retumba en mis sienes que me oprime y hace brotar las lágrimas que lavan.

From my own flaw I had created a future good.

Hope was my greatest sin. — Clarice Lispector, from "The Disasters of Sofia," The Complete Stories (New Directions, 2015)

The human condition is Christ's passion.

Nadie podrá contar jamás las almas que la Madre de Dios ha devuelto a la vida divina. Para esto habría que enumerar todas las conversiones. No hay una sola que no se haya llevado a cabo sin su concurso maternal. Es imposible, dice San Ignacio Mártir, que se salve un pecador si no es por el auxilio de María.

It is never too late to do what is right.

Jesus asked me how much I love Him and I said, This much. I asked Him the same question... Jesus just smiled and walked away. One day, Jesus spread His arms and died for me.

The most holy person is most in touch with his own depravity and, consequently, with the great mercy and kindness of God. In a sense he has grown downward, not upward; he is humbled, not exalted.

Simon, you gave me no water to wash my feet, but this woman as washed them with her tears. You gave me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss my feet. Do no reproach her Simon for you did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed me for my burial.

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.