Quotes About Redemption

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Good people don't go to Heaven, forgiven people do.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.

The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

Am I good enough to go to Heaven?