Quotes about Redemption

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.

No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.

His song would be our only path, despite any sins w might have committed and any punishments we might deserve. What we believed in, and what we said aloud, we could create before His eyes and in His image.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

I want you to tell them my little story, and then tell them the good news-that when you know Christ, you know there's something better coming.

Jesus said, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

John 1:12 says, 'As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.' And the apostle Paul told us in Ephesians, 'By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.