Personal redemption Quotes

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

Arsene Wenger gave me the possibility to bounce back.

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.

Who doesn't like a redemption story?

Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove to the fans in England - but I know that in England they did not see the best of me.

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.

All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage. People had every reason to doubt my sincerity, but most of them didn't. And - given my history, it was more than I could've hoped for - forgiveness and the benefit of the doubt. It still amazes me.

My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight. But then only movment could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.