Quotes About Redemption

The hyper-grace teachers are simply wrong when they claim that all our future sins are forgiven the moment we are saved.

There is no sin nature in there. There is nothing of the old creation that lives inside of your new creation spirit. There is no sin or unrighteousness. Your spirit has received full perfection! Full holiness! God is not trying to give you anything else—He has already given you fullness! . . . All of the fullness of God lives inside of you!54

But if the threat to philosophy and thought in general was radical, could there still be hope for the future? Could one go on after Auschwitz without capitulating wholly to its evil, to its negativity, to its destruction of our categories and principles? For Jews, what could remain of the ideas of salvation and redemption? Did integrity require complete despair?

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.

There is so much good in a garden, if you don't count what happened to Adam and Eve.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

The greatest redemption is between the war of two evils, their very retaliation reveals their goodly nature.

It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity to save hers.

When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would've imagined I'd become a prison chaplain. But God works in mysterious ways, and when I fell from grace in Atlanta, this is the grace I fell into.

De mens bepaalde door eigen doen en laten of zijn ziel gered dan wel verdoend werd. Waarmee God, in al Zijn alwetendheid en almacht, in feite in Zijn hemd kwam te staan.

without struggle there can be no triumph, without suffering there can be no happiness, and without sacrifice there can be no salvation.

The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be redeemed by the brush of the wing of the great bird of spirit.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an orange sleeve. 'I'm going to hell. That's where the action is.

And as you see, poor Idris was...persuaded,shall we say? Yes,persuaded to tell me about Tyre and his own route back to Al-Kal'as from there. Faysal, reveal to her his pain." The Captain of the Guard dragged Idris forward. Faysal then ripped away his shirt, and Aminah gasped. Angry scars laced his bare chest, some of the burns still crusted and weeping. Tears tumbled down Aminah's face, but Idris did not raise his head to see them. "Forgive me" he mumered.

To misunderstand salvation is to fail to understand fully who the Savior is.

A common caricature of Catholic teaching is that it rejects the notion of salvation by grace and affirms instead that salvation is simply by works. Nothing could be further from the truth.

God wants us to be forgiven more than we ourselves want to be forgiven.

Michael Punke

I don't know why people keep trying to help me like this. They should be heading for the hills. Ali says I inspire loyalty but I seem to be taking kindness that I can never hope to repay. I am not a perfect human being. I'm a cynic and a pessimist and sometimes I feel as though I'm locked into this life by an accident of birth. But at times like this, a random act of kindness or the touch of another human being makes me believe I can be different, better, redeemed.

In an aptly titled article 'Two Rights Don't Make Up for a Wrong', the authors found that 'the overall goodness of a person is determined mostly by his worst bad deed.'35 Decades of devoted work for public causes can be obliterated in an instant with an extramarital affair, financial scandal or criminal act.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings?

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

The biblical story is not to be understood simply as a local tale about a certain ethnic group or religion. It begins with the creation of all things and ends with the renewal of all things.