The three step key to happiness when everything is down – Redemption, Reconstruction and Recover

And I think that’s when we’re at our best — when we support each other. Not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other to grow, when we...

But who is Aslan? Do you know him?””Well-he knows me,” said Edmund. “He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia.

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

You can’t let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost.

You listen to me, and listen good!” she shouted, shocking me. “I am not evil because I have a thousand years of demon smut on my soul!” she exclaimed, the tips of her hair trembling...

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin’ goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin’Turnin’ from the past, at last and all I’ve left behind

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...

But when, through the open door of the cross and the name and power of Jesus Christ, I commend myself to the Father’s heart, then God cancels all my past, accepts all my present, swears...

What if “redemption” means not only freeing yourself from what you’ve done, but also from what’s been done to you?

Redemption isn’t giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

We’re the perfect complement to each other. I help him stay grounded and he helps me fly.

We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for us grace and glory; that we are blessed with all spiritual blessings, in, through, and for him; that he is...

This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins – that we enjoy them.

I’m sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I’m willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?

Having been tenant long to a rich Lord, Not thriving, I resolved to be bold, And make a suit unto him, to affordA new small-rented lease, and cancell th’ old.In heaven at his manour I...

How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother’s hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you,...

Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato’s safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the...

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I...

Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].

Anyone capable of love is capable of being saved.

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...

Why, conqueringMay prove as lordly and complete a thingIn lifting upward, as in crushing low!And as a vanquished soldier yields his swordTo one who lifts him from the bloody earth,Even so, Belovëd, I at last...

My god, they’re everywhere.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world’s expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

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.

In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as...

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss–a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no...

What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can’t get there any other way?

I’ll love you until I’m ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I’ll love you even more.

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

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,...

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break….love did what hatred can not and never will.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my...

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

Relinquishing resentment is redemption

The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building...

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering...

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

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face.

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible...

Do you know, my darling, how very much God loves you?He loves you so much that He created you and blessed you with this life.He gives you the strength to help you grow; trust in...

God loves you in spite of your mistakes

Redemption encompasses both of these scenes: God’s full and complete entry into the conditions of a world suffering in sin and death and God’s resurrection of Jesus to new life, as the firstborn of the...

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus’ fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by...