Quotes About Redemption

We all done wrong. We keep God plenty busy fixin' our mistakes.

Never brood over the past, for every saint has had a past and every criminal has a future. Encourage transformation and MickeyMize someone's life." Share this as every demon has the potential to become divine.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén». Y apenas lo había rezado cuando me dije: «¿pecadores?, ¿nosotros pecadores?, ¿y cuál es nuestro pecado, cuál?».

Stern endorses Pascal's maxim "To understand is to forgive." In fact, one of the most exciting opportunities in being a writer, he feels, is to take a villain or criminal character and make him human by showing what caused him to be so.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS GIVEN, NOT EARNED; RECEIVED, NOT TAKEN.

When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.

Understanding that one's worthiness need not be earned. Learning that hearing or saying no is neither a denial of love nor inappropriately selfish. Realizing that it's no one's job or responsibility to save or redeem another. Considering that there's no such thing as a one-and-only "soul mate." Discovering that self-love needs to come before loving others. Finding that being happy and living in peace does not require sadness and violence.

God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring us to the place where we'll acknowledge our need for Him.

Jesus calls his churches to overcome--to engage and redeem and be victorious over the culture around them--and then shows them what this looks like. This is one of the paradoxes of our faith--that Jesus conquered and overcame through suffering and sacrificial love.

The Creator celebrates broken things as a way to love us. And this, my friend, is also what he invites us to do.

People of the Second Chance hold to the promise that broken things can be made beautiful again.

Second chancers understand our brokenness isn't something to hide but to integrate into our lives. We do not need to be ashamed. No matter what the world says, we are not "less than" for being broken.

We may not see how our frayed, smelly imperfections can be redesigned, but God certainly can. He believes that our imperfections are the raw materials for crafting something extraordinary.

People of the Second Chance understand that God's love gets in through our cracks and breaks.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.

Jonah 3:1: "The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time

This is a book about redemption. It's also about listening to what God has called you do to and then being all in no matter how crazy or unrealistic it seems. It's about expecting God to work it out, keeping the faith, and knowing that when God says it's time, it is time, and no one can stop Him.

Jesus knew that everybody contained potential. He never eliminated someone just because of their past. Born of a mother who conceived Him as a virgin, He knew what it meant to have a questionable background. He rose above it.

the whole of the Bible is the love story of God calling us into relationship with himself.

I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5). Ours is the water of baptism.

God rescues His own before He Himself rains judgment down on the wicked.

I think books are like rain, wherever rain falls, things grow. So hopefully wherever our books land, the person who reads them will gain knowledge, and his or her mind will grow. This in turn, will help humanity grow. We will always be proud of our secret library and i am sure that good things will continue to flow from it"-[Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption In a Town Under Siege by Mike Thompson] 5