Quotes About Redemption

To me, God says, "I've given you this gift of grace, which means you don't earn your way to heaven. You don't work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift."

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

Work ... is redemption.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.

Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work

You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years

The nature of Christ is love

No amount of money can recover lost time

You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people

The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God

Time wasted can never be compensated

Time lost can never be regained

Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)

God shall shine through the person you are and not the mistakes you made.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73