#redemption

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

— Clive Barker

#inspirational #love #redemption #sadness #art

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#cross #flesh #god #heart #his

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#distinguishes #evolution #god #incarnation #kingdom

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 example, but not a Redeemer. It was more important for Him to fulfill the purpose of the coming, to redeem man from sin while in the likeness of human flesh. Teachers change men by their lives; Our Blessed Lord would change men by His death. The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed simply by wise exhortations and social reforms. The wages of sin is death, and therefore it was to be by death that sin would be atoned for. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#redemption #salvation #sin #the-cross #change

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 one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#age

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 that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#health #love #redemption #wholeness #art

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me— ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

I will love you until the day after forever-Beautiful Chaos ↗

— Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #beautiful-redemption #beauty

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. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#death-penalty #inspiriational #redemption #death

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

— Rob Bell

#jesus #redemption #restoration #dreams