Quotes About Redemption

The arrogance to insist on her own unhappiness, her own loneliness, had always been in her, but only now did it venture to emerge; it blossomed, ran wild, smothered her. She was unredeemable and nobody should have the effrontery to redeem her…

When Jesus was nailed to the cross and hung there in torment - he cried out "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God's silence.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

God doesn't forgive because we're worthy, but because he love us. And no sin is too great to be absolved--if contrition is sincere. It all begins with an earnest "I'm sorry

If God was willing to give people a second chance, why should we do any less?

Forget the past. Forgive as God forgave. Forge a new future. It was the man Steven was today that mattered. And that man was worth trusting--and loving.

Nothing shy of a miracle could bring about a match between a woman committed to protecting lives and a man who'd destroyed more than his share.

That not everyone gets a second change at love. That it's a gift-and refusing to accept it is like throwing that gift back in the Almighty's face.

God wouldn't be interested in the likes of him.

Spirit of fear and confusion, I command you out of my life (or out of the life of your child or loved one). In the name of Jesus, I bind your works and your strategies from hindering me with fear. I plead the blood of Jesus, and I declare that greater is Christ in me than all of the power of the enemy.

All sins cast long shadows.

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of this shaft, and he would go mad there drinking blood and eating human flesh, without ever being able to die. Up there, against the sky, there were good angels with ropes, and bad angels with grenades and rifles, and a big old man with a white beard who waved his arms but could not save him.

Tutti abbiamo una ferita segreta per riscattare la quale combattiamo.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

Questo è il significato della lotta, il significato vero, totale, al di là dei vari significati ufficiali. Una spinta di riscatto umano, elementare, anonimo, da tutte le nostre umiliazioni.

with Christ in faith a wholly new life begins. It is not a restored life, and it is not a rejuvenated life either. It is not even a life reborn out of its origin. The resurrection of Christ has no historical prototype. It is something completely new in history. It is the beginning of the new creation of everything.

The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.

Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings

As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.

God, having made us free, will not heal our disorder without our assent.

Jesus, I am sorry.

So that the best believer, if he knows what he says, and says the truth, is but a sinner at the best.