Quotes About Redemption

dead. We sinned. We blew it over and over. What was God's part? He did it all. He chose us, made us alive, lavished his grace on us, started us, and will complete what he started.

There is a reason God used the east and west to describe how far he cast your sin from you,' he said. 'If you go north, you can only go north so far until you're finally going south. And you can only go south so far until you're going north. But if you start traveling east, it keeps going east forever, and west just keeps going west. If you think about it, you're never going to go so far west that you're going east. That's how far he cast our sin from us.

Jesus is not life enhancement. Jesus is life.

All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God

Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.

American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the bible in every sense of the word: embraced them, endured them, seized them, stolen them, caught them and captured them. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book

The phrase "executed God" does important conceptual work symbolically, and with practical effects for communities that center themselves around such a notion. The

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, "God," faces and suffers the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a kind of corporate project-management structure, composed of a series of key deliverables across deep time.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

The marathon lane is largely empty, mostly silent: the road of the damned rather than the saved.

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms." Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol

Grace is the greatest gift anyone could have ever given us. It should humble us, prompt us to make our lives right.

The natural act of tangible gratitude to God's grace is to love Him back—to receive His love in the form of forgiveness of our sins—but to choose diligence in overcoming those sins as a loving statement of gratefulness.

I failed you," Pino choked. "Christmas Eve, you were there to stand by me, come what may. And I wasn't there for you. I . . . I don't know why. I can't even explain it to myself. I wish I'd stood against the wall with you, Anna.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

just as we all know what it means to witness something being broken, we also know what it means to hope for restoration.

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

Antonio, " Ash groaned, "you know I hate it when you eat at my desk." "I know, " Antonio replied, "but I don't mind and so long as one of us is reasonable, I figured why not?

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The Blood of Jesus washes away our past and the Name of Jesus opens up our future.