Quotes About Redemption

25For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

if the tomb in which He lay for some time is so venerated, how holy, just, and worthy must be the person who touches [Him] with his hands, receives [Him] in his heart and mouth, and offers [Him] to others to be received. [This is] He who is now not about to die, but who is eternally victorious and glorified, upon whom the angels desire to gaze

We adore You, Lord Jesus Christ, in all Your churches throughout the world, and we bless You, for through Your holy cross You have redeemed the world." ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

In addition, forgiveness is crucial to deliverance from the Evil One, because a bitter heart gives him a foothold in our lives.

If the soul does not repent, and wipe out its sins by sorrow, the demons almost immediately return and continue to possess it." St. Alphonsus

12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

As Abraham had promised Isaac, God Himself truly provided the Lamb, His own Son, offered as a willing sacrifice, raised from the dead, and present daily on the altar at every Holy Mass. The

Whoever doesn't seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — St. John of the Cross

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Devido ao fato de o pecado cegar, Deus estabeleceu o corpo de Cristo para atuar como um instrumento de visão em nossa vida, de tal maneira que podemos nos conhecer com uma profundidade e exatidão que seriam impossíveis se fôssemos deixados à nossa própria sorte.

The blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanses us from all sin'?

I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."—Neil Gaiman

More and more a bell tolled through me. It woke me up early and sometimes in the still middle of the night, sending a cold chill up over the surface of my skin. What have I done? Can I still mend this? Can I free myself? Most

I wanted him back in a howling way. I needed to make things right, to forgive and be forgiven, which amounted to the same impossible thing.

And then you snatched me from the ashes and stirred my dreams back to life.

The Lord sends to each of us some chastisement. Some burden, so that we may turn to him.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

When you die, you'll be wearing your white dress with red roses, and your hair will be long and falling around your shoulders. When they shoot you, up on your damn roof or walking alone on the street, your blood will look like another red rose on your dress, and no one will notice, not even you when you bleed out for Mother Russia.

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that's just so far," he added with a smile.

Alexander, me has roto el corazón. Pero por haberme llevado a tu espalda, por tirar de mi trineo de muerte, por darme tu último pedazo de pan, por el cuerpo que te destrozaste por mí, por el hijo que me has dado, por los veintinueve días que vivimos en el paraíso, por todas nuestras arenas blancas de Naples y nuestros vinos de Napa, por todos los días que has sido mi primer y mi último aliento, por Orbeli... Te perdonaré.

Tania, when I found you, I felt for that hour or two we were together - before Dimitri, before Dasha - that somemhow I was going to right my life." Alexander smiled bitterly. "I had a sense of hope and destiny that I can neither explain nor understand.

Wir gehen allein durch diese Welt, doch wen wir großes Glück haben, dürfen wir einen Augeblick lenag jemandem gehören, jemandem der uns durch die Einsamkeit trägt, die ein Legen lang andauert! Und für eine Minute habe ich ihn noch einmal berührt, in der Abenddämerung, und mir sind rote Flügel gewachsen, ich war wieder jung im Sommergarten. Ich hatte wieder Hoffnung und das ewige Leben.

Sometimes the beast needs to be loved before it can be lovable. Love her in her sin, that's what divine love means. Love her with the highest form of love on earth. Love everything. Then you will see mystery in everything.

There was no Alexander anymore; the man he knew had died and was reborn inside a perfect heart, given to him straight from God, to him and for him.