Quotes About Redemption

The end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the Beloved Community

Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

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Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

The differences between Buber and Hegel far outnumber their similarities. But they are at one in their opposition to any otherworldliness, in their insistence on finding in the present whatever beauty and redemption there may be, and in their refusal to pin their hopes on any beyond.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

there is no Jezebel remedy. There's no conscience chemo. No pill for cheating. No therapeutic number of Hail Marys or blow jobs or home-cooked meals or good-wife deeds.

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

Forgiveness is God's command.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.