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• Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

  Billy Sunday

  Jesus, Believe, Blood

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

  Joss Whedon

  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

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• His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is set before us here as the supreme example of what our attitude should be. If Jesus Christ the Lord of glory was willing to be obedient unto death, how much more should sinners saved by grace who owe everything to God give back to the God who saved them the life which He has redeemed.

  John F Walvoord

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Elements, Redemption, World

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• Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Humanity, Saint

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• Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

  Richard Wright

  World, Sake, Environment

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Blue, Lost Ones

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Love Is, Fire

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

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• The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Emphasis, Redeemer

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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• Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

  Wendell Berry

  Vision, World, Lovers

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Song, Religion, Looks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.129, Penguin

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• Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rights, Blood, Liberty

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.96, Penguin

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• I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Sweet, Jesus

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.313, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

  Felix Dennis

  Convinced

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• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Denial, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

  John Piper

  Perfection, Redemption, Realizing

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• A people without history
  Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
  Of timeless moments.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, People, Patterns

  Little Gidding (1942) pt. 5

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• The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Self, Leader

  "In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

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• Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

  Mark Helprin

  Dream, Memories, Children

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• The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, What If, Done

  "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail". Book by Cheryl Strayed, March 20, 2012.

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• What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  Cheryl Strayed

  What If, Done, Made

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.228, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Silent night, holy
  night, when the bough flies from the tree
  and is hung everywhere, when
  from tables the crusts fly,
  when the gifts begin to tremble
  because lovelessness walks through the world,
  because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow,
  and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery,
  and the silver and gold, and a golden word
  come to you on which you choke
  because you have been sold and betrayed,
  and because it does not suffice that for you
  one is redeemed who once died.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Rip, Night, Snow

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• Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.

  William Bradford

  Kindness, Son, Men

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.63, Rutgers University Press

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