Quotes About Redemption

Paul's story to have a happier ending—for ourselves

You ever met anyone who's served time in Parchman prison?" "Yes sir. Met a guy in Angola who served time there." "I'm sure he was happy to be out of there." "Yes sir. Said it's the worst place in the country.

She confessed that she hoped to be saved

by and in the blood of Christ at the foot of whose crucifix she would willingly shed her blood.

Judaism, again, was rejected when it rejected the Messiah.

Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer. "If you don't believe in Easter," Owen Meany said. "Don't kid yourself—Don't call yourself a Christian.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence.

It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead …'" Pastor Merrill assured us. "'For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead,'" my father said.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.' And they glorified God because of me." How well I know that feeling! I trust in God because of Owen Meany. It

My father was not a brave or an honorable man; but he had once tried to be brave and honorable. He had been afraid, but he had dared—in his fashion—to pray for Owen Meany; he had done that pretty well.

Graham Greene

Owen Meany had believed that his death was necessary if others were to be saved from a stupidity and hatred that was destroying him. In that belief, surely he was not so unfamiliar a hero.

to err is human, to forgive, divine." "You like Shakespeare, do you?

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.