Some protest that this affirmation comes at a cost: You can not receive it unless you first abase yourself as a hopeless and helpless
sinner in need of redemption.
Even in the tension and pain of knowing thatI don't know, of knowing that I am biased and I have much to learn, of knowing that I am prideful and
deeply in need of redemption every day, I am strangely, bizarrely, more happy here.»
Forgetting the direction toward honesty, many Christians seem to believe that what Scripture means by «pure» and by «lovely» is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a
world in need of redemption.
In a phone interview from his home in Plains, he said politics is one
area in need of redemption, bemoaning the influx of vitriol and money into politics.
I began to understand what she meant — that Penny is no more or less human than I am, no more or less born in sin, no more or less blessed, no more or
less in need of redemption.
«Adhere to faith in love, because this nation has too many dark, bitter, and poisoned
souls in need of redemption, because there exists too much vigilance, fear, and hostility between people.
It is not easy, even for the voice of truth to assert itself with the same ringing majesty as of old; the message ofsalvation and new hope has lost its loud fearlessness, and Christendom itself, the haven of the world, is
urgently in need of a redemption within itself.
A common feature of them both is their basic dualism, according to which the present world and its human inhabitants are under the control of demonic, satanic powers, and
stand in need of redemption.
And pity humanity, ever finding fresh ways to express its depths of depravity, and desperately
in need of redemption by the God whose image we repeatedly deface in our inhumanity to one another.
This is a character
sorely in need of redemption, and it is to the film's credit that Joseph's upward trajectory turns out to be so gripping to watch.
Even in the tension and pain of knowing that I don't know, of knowing that I am biased and I have much to learn, of knowing that I am prideful and
deeply in need of redemption every day, I am strangely, bizarrely, more happy here.
«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken,
in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.
The bottom line for me is that I am wretched and
in need of redemption, but in the truth that seems to be present in paradox, God values me enough to have sacrificed to provide that redemption.
When he tells the priest, who senses the presence of a sinner
in need of redemption, «I do what I'm good at,» it's with a mixture of pride and resignation.