Quotes About Redemption

All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life while starting a new one, and doing so with millions of people watching.

transformed through Jah and the Holy Ghost the segments of Babylon that were inside of me.

I was tired of losing things. No, not losing, having things taken from me. I couldn't handle any more of the universe's thievery. — Lyric

sold for the price of a slave. And in a matter of hours they hoped he would die like a slave; on a cross. Clearly Jesus would die as a slave, nailed to the cross beam, but he would not die like a slave.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence.

Of course it's not right. The Cross isn't right. But our Lord took it and turned it into the great sign that the devil hates above all other signs. Each time we accept to bear that cross and be nailed to it, believing against all believing - when it's impossible any longer to believe because of our pain - that's when we defeat him. By the blood of the Lamb!

I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.

You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.

Peter looked at Jesus and said, 'Get away from me; I'm a sinful man.' A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

In my faith we believe there is only one answer to the blows that evil inflicts on us. The answer is not a rational argument. The answer is a man. This man is God himself suffering with us, dying with us, so that he might draw us up to the Most High, confounding all the devices of the enemy.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

Here's the rock, I said to myself. This man, this rough, humble, big man was just like me. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Peter looked at Jesus and said, Get away from me, I'm a sinful man. A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

Do you see these wounds? These bruises?" "Yes." "They are my joy." "Pain is your joy?" "The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

Michael D. O'Brien

We wish to be worthy of being saved", Father Andrei continued. "Which is another way of saying that we, every one of us, whether we know it or not, wish to be our own god, that is, to save ourselves. We want paradise without his Cross, forgetting that the Cross is the only way to reenter the original harmony we lost in the Fall of Man. This is the narrow gate.

God wants you to know that nothing you do will ever destroy His love for you. He has sent a man back from the dead to tell you this." "I do not understand." "We do not understand because we are small creatures. You and I. All of us. Very small. To hide in His arms, that is the best thing we ever do.