601 Quotes About Redemption

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

The fragility of our era is this, too: we don’t believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to raise you up; for an embrace to save you, forgive you, pick you up, flood you with infinite, patient, indulgent love; to put you back on your feet. We need mercy.

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

At the very instance where I simply kneel and say “help,” the vast distance that I created between where I am and where God is no longer ‘is.

I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.

The eyes of a nation (living godly) like this shall see the King of kings and the Lord of lords in all his beauty. Meaning salvation and redemption shall be readily available in abundance for the people of that land.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.