#redemption

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#epigraph #hope #redemption #men

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

— Evinda Lepins

#god #god-s-plan #god-s-will #life #life-lessons

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#bleak #christian-behavior #loss-of-faith #misery #no-redemption

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#forget #lies #longer #makes #redemption

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#aside #deeply #feel #hell #hell is

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#christ #claimed #cross #did #die

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

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#art #called #chandler #disciple #essays

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially