Quotes About Redemption

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

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!

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

St. Gregory enunciates this truth still more plainly: "Although Christ dies not again, yet He suffers again for us in the Sacrifice of the Mass after a mysterious, mystical manner." Theodoret speaks no less plainly: "We offer no other sacrifice but that which was offered upon the Cross.

No less reassuring is what Cardinal Hosius says: "Although in Holy Mass we do not crucify Christ afresh, yet we make ourselves partakers in His death as much as if this were the case. In the Sacrifice of the Cross His death was with shedding of blood; in the Sacrifice of the Mass His death is bloodless and mystical, yet it produces the same fruit as the Sacrifice of Blood, just as if the latter were now being carried on.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13

Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608–74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10

BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT – THE OFFICIAL NOVELIZATION

It is not Docetism (in the strict sense) which is the characteristic of gnostic Christology, but the two-nature doctrine, i.e. the distinction between Jesus and Christ, or the doctrine that the redeemer as redeemer did not become man" (162).

Sethian texts frequently portray the glorious fullness (plrma) of the divine in graphic detail, and they highlight the fall of the divine, through wisdom's folly, as the source of the creation, fall, and redemption of the world of humankind.

The reason the Lord holds you to the fire is not to punish you, but to reveal the splendor of Christ through your life. It's not so that you might earn God's favor; it's because you've already received God's favor.

This dog had shown more courage than I. This great, powerful, beautiful dog was willing to take a chance on me - a broken, depressed, lonely Marine.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Life could not be lived backward. There was no undoing the regret, but she could make one last attempt to seek forgiveness.

Lo! lifted from the earth's turmoil, From every curse of care or fate, In yon rare region of the soul Our hearts redeemed must meet and mate.

Have mercy on me, OGod, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

When Man will re-find himself, then demons with angels and God with the Devil will reconcile.

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too

Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.