Quotes About Redemption

Everyone, it seems, wants absolution for something.

The historical manifestations of the covenant of redemption can be categorized according to their specific emphases: Adam: the covenant of commencement Noah: the covenant of preservation Abraham: the covenant of promise Moses: the covenant of law David: the covenant of the kingdom Christ the covenant of consummation.

?lk yalan? söyledikten sonra bir daha konu?mamal? insan ümit ediyor ?sa günahlar? affediyor her i? yolunda fakat ?sa günah i?lemedi bunun a??rl???n? bilemez yapt??? bir hataya kitaplarda rastlayamad?m ba?kas?nda günahlar? affetmek kolay...

Midem yan?yor: içkiden kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Yang?ndan kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Benim midem. Benim kalbim.

If a man could live a thousand years, the sins of his first year would be as fresh in the memory of the Almighty as those of the last. Eternity itself will never wash out a sin. Flow on, ye ages!...Flow on still in mighty streams, but the damning spot is there still. Neither time nor eternity can cleanse it. Only one thing can remove sin. The lapse of time cannot. Let not any of you be so foolish as to hope it will.

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He

sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He's had notable success with this carrot-and-stick approach.

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

And Golgotha," he utters, barely audibly, "is, among other things, death for the sins of others. Also, you could say, a way of tidying up, of leaving things clean. Someone has to do it when too much stuff piles up. A way of purifying the system, according to the law of large numbers: many, many small Calvaries...

My life had lost its relish when liberty was gone.

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

Thus, my children, after men have travelled through a few stages in vice, shame forsakes them, and returns back to wait upon the few virtues they have still remaining.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

In particular, if Christians must reject the death penalty, it is not from an idolatrous sacralization of biological life, but in order to leave a person the opportunity of repentance. Remember this, and you will no longer judge: Judas was an apostle, and the thief crucified at Christ's right hand was a murderer. What a transformation in an instant! John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent,

Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

Christ reigns in order to save." (Hom. in Luc. 30)

I do not deny in the least that the rational nature will always keep its free will, but I declare that the power and effectiveness of Christ's cross and of his death, which he took upon himself toward the end of the aeons, are so great as to be enough to set right and save, not only the present and the future aeon, but also all the past ones, and not only this order of us humans, but also the heavenly orders and powers." (Comm. in Rom. 4.10)

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.