Not every story has a happy ending, … but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart, and the revelations of the soul all assure us that no human being is ever beyond redemption....

And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you’d think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.

The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice… Those who admit their own faults and above all, those who believe… A wholehearted trust in Amida Buddha gives peace of mind to...

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offered him an example of supreme humility, charity, and self-sacrifice. Bernard asserts, against Abelard, that Christ became man...

Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls…he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness…through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the...

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose,...

They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they’re also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our...

And when Jesus declared, ‘It is finished,’ He meant it. God’s punishment for our sin was paid for, permanently settled, finished— 100 percent. If you have responded in faith to God’s free pardon through Jesus,...

Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are...

Don’t let your past define you, let it mold you into the person you want to be

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

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

Sometimes, most times, when I think back to the people that I loved, the person that I was… I feel like I’m reading the pages of a book written about someone else’s life.I can’t believe...

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of...

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture...

To be saved is here, local and mortal

That’ll do, donkey,” I said, in my best Scottish accent.

Saving you is the only thing that will bring me peace for all the wrong I have done. That is my truth

This morning I awoke drowning in sadness. Sleepily, I probed my heart looking for a cause.Then, rising from the dream, I took possession of my feelings and gave them back to God – the only...

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

In my opinion, we will always be sinners in need of our Savior, Jesus Christ.”~R. Alan Woods [2007]

When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship.

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

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ’s strength eclipses your powerlessness in God’s likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness.

And I wish to thank you as well, Royce.”He was puzzled. “For what?” “For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they’ve done, can find redemption if they seek it.

Like most people, my views about ghosts and haunted places were traditional while growing up. I believed ghosts were human spirits. Not that I talked to many people about the subject or my experiences. I...

God hijacks and bends evil to work peace and healing. If God were only a God of justice, He could punish evil but do no more. Only a God of grace can use our evil...

In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?

Rejection is life’s way of telling you that you suck, redemption is your way of telling life to suck it.

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that...

It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great...

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should...

So you choose him?”Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.’ The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. ‘I choose no one.

When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of “second chances”. Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past;...

Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where...

Did you skip your medication or something?

Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane.There can be no ‘chosen people’ in the Atheist philosophy.There are no bended knees in Atheism;No supplications, no prayers;No sacrificial redemptions;No ‘divine’ revelations;No washing in the...

And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will...

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man’s free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as...

If there was ever such a thing as redemption, they would have to open a magnum of the stuff for Moist. No, a brewery.

There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

That’s arrogance, Harry. ” he said, gently. “On a level so deep, you don’t even realize it exists. And do you know why it’s there?” “No?” I asked. He smiled again. “Because you have set...

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

And the best, most redeeming, exciting thing I can imagine, from the smashed-up, broken place I’ve been, is that something beautiful could blossom out of the wreckage… This is what I know: God can make...