Quotes About Redemption

Could you hate your son for what he had done, and still love him for who he had been? The

Finding God's grace wasn't like locating missing keys or the forgotten name of a 1940s pinup girl – it was more of a feeling: the sun breaking through an overcast morning, the softest bed sinking under your weight. And, of course, you couldn't find God's grace unless you admitted you were lost.

When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't—mercy—did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.

Maria kijkt me aan. Ik weet niet wat deze persoon jou heeft aangedaan, en misschien wil ik het ook liever niet weten. Maar iemand vergeven doe je niet voor die ander. Je doet het voor jezelf, zodat je verder kunt met je leven. Het betekent: jij bent niet zo belangrijk voor mij dat je me in je greep kunt houden. Het betekent: jij zult mij niet verstrikken in het verleden. Ik verdien een toekomst.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

If you had the chance, would you change what you did? We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one that really matters. I turn, so that I am staring square at you; so that you know, all my life, anything I've ever said or buried beneath silence was just for you. If I had the chance, I reply. I'd do it all over again.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy

In Judaism, that's called teshuvah. It means 'turning away from evil.' It's not a one-time deal, either. It's a course of action. A single act of repentance is something that makes the person who committed the evil feel better, but not the person against whom evil was committed.

She'd Shot A Man & Found A Friend - Maggie Allison

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more cleary than others. -Plain Truth

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.

You are saying, I would like to but I could never forgive you or myself. I am saying, if you let me kneel before you once, I can live without forgiveness for a very long time.

Christ will receive all who come to Him, but Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them.

God, through the Law, His alien work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith and the knowledge of His forgiveness.

Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.

Death breaks the union between the body and the soul but perfects the union between Christ and the soul.

the true focus of a healthy eschatology, namely, "the return of the King.

to repent of my former patterns of thinking and live in exchange for something far better.

Be saved from this perverse generation!" (Acts 2:40)

God is able to bring good out of evil for those whom you meant to injure, and you who did the evil were left to suffer the unhappy consequences of it.

Friendship is an intercourse of world. Mike Tyson became a friend of "Cus" D'Amato, and it took him from fighting on the street and going to prison to fighting in a ring for money.