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

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.

He held his fingers to my lips. Shh, don't say it, Tyler. Don't say the words that will fucking break me. Don't say the words that will tear my world apart. Dean sighed and gripped his eyes shut...

I don't know,

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

She looked at him. Amazed by his certainty that this would all turn out fine. Humbled that he had any faith in Her after years of abuse at her hand. Perplexed by the love her mistreatment didn't...

Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.

Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

You must first feel sorry for your sins, to seek the free gift of grace of salvation.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

The gospel is the story of God covering his naked enemies, bringing them to the wedding feast, and then marrying them rather than crushing them.

Someday, somehow, I would repay my cousin Rachel.

This, too, is part of God's plan for what our work should be about, and what it would still be about if we had not experienced the fall, which marred everything including our labor.

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage,...

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.