Quotes About Redemption

It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.

Rosasharn, you're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. But, Ma—— No. Jes' shut up an' git to work. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much. An' I'm gonna give you the back a my han' if you don' stop this pickin' at yourself.

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not do no murder.

Timshel - thou mayest

Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

It ain't only the keepin' her out. I kep' her out to get drunk. I knowed they was gonna come a time when I got to get drunk, when I'd get to hurtin' inside so I got to get drunk. Figgered time wasn' yet, an' then—the preacher went an' give 'imself up to save Tom.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin, said John, and he looked at the long wrapped body. p. 241

temptations of wealth, power, and prestige. But this final novel defies categories. If it's a parable of corruption and redemption, as Steinbeck suggests in his epigraph, it's also a lesson in Darwinian survival. The novel insists on a symbolic and highly ironic framework—the first half takes place on Easter weekend in April 1960 and the second on the Fourth of July weekend that same year. Yet the book is also realistic, set in Steinbeck's own

As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

The thought of these people having the bold idea of leaving their homes to come here and pray pleases and reassures Rabbit, and moves him to close his own eyes and bow his head with a movement so tiny that Ruth won't notice. Help me, Christ. Forgive me. Take me down the way. Bless Ruth, Janice, Nelson, my mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Springer, and the unborn baby. Forgive Tothero and all the others. Amen.

Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.

Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

No soul has the power to redeem. You can only tell others about the Redeemer.

Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls.

Call on the Saviour, He will save you.

Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.

Jesus Christ is our Saviour.

The throne of grace is the gospel of salvation.

Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.