Quotes About Redemption

Was it not ordained that the Church must one day go through this second Passover?

God wants everyone to be saved. Fostering a longing for the coming of Christ can only happen if we believe that it is for our good.

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

His dreams were the natural reflex of hope and redeemed curiosity.

Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he'd fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.

God is gonna get ya

Professor Snape

Michael G. Santos

Michael G. Santos

Crystal and Starbucks had saved my life. Saved me from my pursuit of empty symbols, but also my anxiety about a fear-filled superficial life that hadn't been, in the end, helpful or even enjoyable for me

grace (free forgiveness when you don't deserve it a bit).

Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

love and honesty are the path to redemption and fulfillment, anything else leads ultimately to tragedy.

Faith, therefore, is a liberation that is also an incorporation, specifically an incorporation into Christ the new lord, and into his body.

Holiness is not a supplement to justification but the actualization of justification,

The "myth of redemptive violence undergirds American popular culture, civil religion, nationalism, and foreign policy," argues Walter Wink.48 It underwrites the belief that killing and/or dying for the national interest is a sacred duty and even privilege. Service to the nation—especially military service, and particularly dying for one's country—is the highest form of both civic and religious devotion.

1. Recognize that the central and centering image of Revelation is the Lamb that was slaughtered.

Specifically, the believer's faith is cruciform faith because Christ's faith(fulness) was expressed on the cross.

All the promises of forgiveness have to do with sins we have already committed, since God is dealing with us in space and time, and He only forgives us for what we have actually done. It's as if you have a debit card with a prepaid amount of one million dollars, but the account is not charged until you go out and use it. In the same way, the forgiveness of all of our sins has been prepaid, but that forgiveness is not applied in advance. It is applied as needed. Already

Simply stated, there is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible that pronounces us already forgiven for our future sins (meaning, sins we have not yet committed). Not one verse. Nowhere. Not even a hint of such a concept.