Quotes about Redemption

God, I want a new job and I don't want to go to jail," Tony prayed. "But I know there are consequences to my actions. I know what I did hurt people. I've hurt my family. I hurt my employer. And I thank You for forgiving me and grabbing hold of my heart and not letting me go any further toward things that would have destroyed me.

None of us ever gets to be in relationship with a finished person. God's redemptive work of change is ongoing in all our lives.

God take what He would, she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don't study war no more. Lay all that mess down. Sword and shield.

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don't study war no more,. Lay all that mess down.

Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

Whether you received brokenness or goodness from your own father, you are a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17).

The issue that you may be facing or struggling with today may be an issue of the covenant. If it is, you are free to appeal to God.

If Jesus is the Messiah, how could he be put to death?