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Redemption Quotes
"Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on."
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"God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees."
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"Godliness has already come in human flesh to rescue humanity from its own ungodliness."
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"Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me."
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"Christ Is The Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World."
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"I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not."
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"To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved."
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"It is true that you may have lost some time in the past. You may have allowed your life melt away with your time, but the good news is that you still have the future."
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"The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint."
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"Freedom from sin is real."
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"It is not God's power that is lacking to accomplish the redemption of nations."
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"The redemption of a country depends on the position of the church."
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"My sin murdered Him. And out of this self-loathing shame borne of the understanding that I could perpetrate such a heinous act, I am barely able to raise my head sufficiently to ask what crazed insanity would prompt Jesus to walk out of an empty tomb for the single purpose of pursuing a decaying soul that murdered Him? And I would be wise to consider that the question itself is asked only because I have yet to touch the barest periphery of God's love despite the fact that because of an empty tomb it stands right in front of me."
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"Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate to achieve either? And how long will it take me to realize that if I doggedly refuse to pass by God, my inadequacy is instantly irrelevant and I have in actuality begun to achieve these very things."
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"We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able."
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"I should have forgiven him."Maybe. Maybe there's more we all could have done, he says, "but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn " guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."
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"The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them."
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"You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become."
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"Just because we've made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now."
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"No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you, to be a better man."
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"We all have a second chance in life to make up for the first."
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"Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness."
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"It is human to sin but divine to be saved."
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"Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script."
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"In God's vocabulary, 'lost' is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective 'found' if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser."
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"In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God."
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"If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
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"Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my 'yesterday' to construct the sturdy portal to my 'tomorrow."
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"In this life, when you deny someone an apology,you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness."
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"Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it."
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"For The Plan Of Redemption To Be Achieve, A Great Purchase Was Done."
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"He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people."
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"We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare."
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"The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God."
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"Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God."
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"Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace."
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"It is mere human for man to sin. But it is divine to be saved."
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"So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again."
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"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain."
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"For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us."
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"It is a difficult thing-if not impossible-to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bull out, blind to potential consequences."
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"It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed."
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"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you."
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"He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done-almost killinng me was one of those thingss-and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."
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"The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed."
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"Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives."
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"The heartbeat of God burns with longing for the redemption of every individual."
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"God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me."
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"I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."
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