Redemption is never where you expect to find it.
God loves us and seeks our redemption, at times through angels.
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?
There's more to life than physical and material.
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship, we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.
In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
There is no redemption from hell.
In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.
Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.
The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.