Quotes About Redemption

Once I slew a man, and never do I wish to slay a man again, for it is bitter for the soul to think thereon.

For every man may sin, and yet again may sin; yet still is he God's handiwork, and still God is near by His handiwork to aid him ever to a fresh endeavour to righteousness.

Again the crucial question: Is there any help to be found for the disinherited in the religion of Jesus?

You know I've smoked a lot of grass O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills But I never touched nothin' That my spirit could kill.

There will always remain more ashes than remorse.

Looking back, I see that my friends and I were all in the same boat—heading for hell on earth and trying to reach heaven in church.

God has designed every component of his creation to display some aspect of his care, and each holds a unique fascination for the human observer. Thus, we can easily engage both young and older minds with some newly discovered feature or fact of nature. If we can make a connection between that discovery and one of God's attributes or a component of God's plan to redeem humanity, we will have provided a stronger motivation for people to seriously investigate the book of Scripture.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 130 From a letter to Sir Stanley Unwin

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

The people your brother killed - well, they all had souls. They weren't Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn't Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that's all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007: 143)

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.

The purpose of confessing our sins is not to render us miserable by simply reminding us what great sinners we are. It is to remind us of what a great Savior we have.

had to rebuke James and John for wishing to initiate eschatological vengeance (fire from heaven) on a village that would not receive Jesus (Luke 9:54). In our present situation in redemptive history, we are not to slaughter our enemies but to win them over with inexplicable deeds of tolerance and kindness (Matt. 5:39–42; Rom. 12:17–21). Now

We may need to learn how to lament and weep before the Lord and recognize our sins and those of our fellow Christians that have caused God to depart from our midst. In the midst of the pain of our lamentation, however, our confidence may yet be placed in God's faithfulness. As

1) The gospel (the good news about Jesus' death and resurrection) is not merely the power by which dead sinners are raised to new life, it is also the power by which God's people are transformed. The gospel is not merely the starting point from which we move on to ethics; it is the heartbeat of our lives as Christians. That

is the attitude expressed by the hymnwriter Augustus Toplady: "Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to thy cross I cling." This attitude is the ultimate idol-smasher, for every idolatry is at root an effort towards self-justification. Every

God is able to write straight with a crooked pencil and to achieve his perfect ends through the use of less than perfect instruments, without himself being tainted or hampered by their imperfection. Indeed,

Finally, God's "wonderful plan" for our lives does not exclude the possibility of shame over past sins. Renewed

The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.

Where Grissom Bunt, Category Twelve PainCriminal, whoever he was, had gone. From which Grissom Bunt would never emerge again. Not as Grissom Bunt. She pictured a shaved naked skull crisscrossed with blue-ridged suture lines, heard a voice saying, "I wouldn't hurt a fly, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.