Quotes About Redemption

No longer a jewel thief; once again my mama's son.

At Donovan, I joined Kairos, a prison-based ministry group, and attended church regularly. Kairos—that's Greek for "God's Time"—became an integral part of my life.

was eligible for a Level II yard, and they had to find a suitable place for me. Corcoran was the place that God intended for me, the place where I could fully embrace and manifest the change I needed to make.

May 1992, I made that bad decision to involve a group of people who wanted to use guns, because that was their method of robbery." I told the commissioners, "That was the manner of person I was back then. Today, twenty-one years later, that's not the same person you see sitting before you.

Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I

Lonesome Whistle." Credited to Hank and Jimmie Davis, it was one of a long line of prison songs.

Knowing himself to be a backslider, and knowing that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting in so many ways, he seemed to find rare peace in the hymns of his childhood.

During the downward spirals, Hank would go to the brink, then pull himself back in the nick of time. He did it so many times that he probably made the fatal mistake of thinking he could always do it

Thank you, Lord, for never turning me away. For never getting scared, for never lashing out when I hurt you, for always being there with arms wide open, ready to take me back.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears. —"The Hound of Heaven" (FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1859–1907)

She'd left God behind long ago, and she doubted he'd care to hear from her now that she was in the worst trouble of her life.

When we sin or make a mistake, we try to learn from it. We don't hold on to it and nurse our feelings of unworthiness.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The passing of Time is the greatest misconception of reparation.

When we wrong God, he does not let us go, he makes us pay for our wrongs but through the death of his own son Jesus Christ. When God's people (Jews) wronged him, he weakened them in battle and caused them to be captives in Babylon for 70 years.

It is only by faith, and nothing else, that forgiveness of sins is apprehended.

Who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ." And we will confess. And we will do it joyously. And the world will snarl at us. And they will hate us the more. They will belittle us and say we are a bunch of kooks and idiots and antiquated fools. And we, like the apostles punished for speaking the name of Jesus in Jerusalem, will suffer with joy, and we will shout it all the louder. "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Sadly, some twist the Gospel into "this for that," which is no gospel at all. But God doesn't work in this way. His Gospel is truly Good News for all people. It is not an "if-then" gospel, but rather a "since-then" Gospel, or even more a "because-therefore" Gospel!

Consciences cannot be set at rest through any works, but only by faith, when they take the sure ground that for Christ's sake they have a gracious God.

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

In the life of every believer, there is conformity to Christ's suffering, a participation in Christ that inevitably includes the elements of self-denial, shame, and loss.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.