There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way.
If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.
