Quotes About Redemption

A neutral place. The chances of finding one these days are slim, maybe even slimmer than Archie's pinball trick. The sheer quantity of shit that must be wiped off the slate if we are to start again as new. Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And not only must the place be neutral, but the messenger who takes you to the place, and the messenger who sends the messenger. There are no people or places like that left…

dare we live for one another? Dare we be happy? Child, it's our only hope. Let us make our love atone for the hate of our fathers. We have been doomed by their sins. Not that...nor anythin' can keep us apart. I am a slayer of men, but I think God spoke to me today.

I must tell you—because you mightn't come back, she whispered. You must know what—what I think of your goodness—of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful. It was deep in my heart. Even now—if I were other than I am—I couldn't tell you. But I'm nothing—only a rustler's girl—nameless—infamous. You've saved me—

Ah jus' know dat God snatched me out de fire through you. And Ah loves yuh and feel glad.

Use God's word to acknowledge what He did for you.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

Sempre que uma mulher chega a se arrepender de suas fraquezas, passa uma esponja sobre a sua vida, a fim de tudo apagar.

He didn't know that you could ache for a place, even when it had hurt you so badly.

My dad is going to have to help us with this one," Greta said. "He's home all the time now, anyway, so I'll show him how to do it." That was the first time Greta had ever spoken to me about her dad's situation, and I wasn't about to press her to say more. Instead, I said, "It's lucky he can help," which sounded so dumb that I turned red in the face.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.

Be Strong In The Grace That Is In Christ Jesus It was this grace or free love which first began with you, and with which you began. It was this which you at first 'apprehended,' or rather, which 'apprehended' you; and your special character is that of men who 'know the grace of God' (Col. 1:6); who have 'tasted that the Lord is gracious' (1 Pet. 2:3); men on whom God has had compassion (Rom. 9:15); men to whom He has shown His forgiving love. Such is your name.

The first true touch of that Cross has secured for me the eternal blessing. I am in the hands of Christ, and none shall pluck me out (Joh 10:28).

It is not merely that we "glory in the cross" (Gal 6:14), but we draw strength from it.

Acesta este infernul: eternitatea r?ut??ii, eternitatea erorii, imposibilitatea binelui, imposibilitatea r?scump?r?rii.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

And Jesus lived happily ever after.