#redemption

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#cross #death #death-and-dying #god #good-friday

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world. ↗

— Rob Bell

#jesus #redemption #restoration #dreams

We are all trophies of God’s grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88) ↗

— Philip Yancey

#grace #redemption #faith

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#forgiveness #i #i believe #i believe in #ignorance

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hope #redemption #forgiveness

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends. ↗

— Beth Bernobich

#redemption #friendship

Brad Green, almost overnight, became the poster boy for the common Wall Street tale - proving once again that greed, most definitely, kills. Giving away about 99% of his fortune was also front page news, but Green barely blinked at having to scrape by with only $200 million. The government seized all five of his homes, his three boats, two jets, a helicopter, 14 cars, and all of his assets except the $200 million he stashed for a rainy day in an offshore bank account. ↗

— Phil Wohl

#redemption #wall-street #home

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. ↗

— Vance Packard

#computer #incomprehensible #notion #possibility #redemption

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#self-confident #life