Redeeming Quotes

• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Petrarch

  Love Is, Grace, Humanity

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• Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

  Jack W. Hayford

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Second Chance, Giving, Gone

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2016

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• God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Son, Men

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 04, 2015

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• Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Errors, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

  Jon Acuff

  Blessing, Past, People

  FaceBook post by Jon Acuff from Jun 22, 2011

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• Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

  Trevor Noah

  Opportunity, Quality, Redeeming Qualities

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Hands, Would Be, Peculiar

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• Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

  Bill Hybels

  Country, Jesus, Life Changing

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• For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

  Max Stirner

  Hate, Philosophy, Perfection

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Blessed, Heart, Reality

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• Upon that cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my smitten heart with tears Two wonders I confess The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness.

  Elizabeth C. Clephane

  Friday, Jesus, Heart

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• Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Artist, Years

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• When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Fire, Water

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• The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Life, Passion, Fire

  1859 Oblomov, pt.2, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Love, Daughter, Hate

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• The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, Cds, Quality

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• But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love

  Pope Pius XII

  Mother, Vision, And Love

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• Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Evil, Giving

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Father, Self

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Calling, His Love

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.

  Colin S. Smith

  Jesus, God's Plan, Christ

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• I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

  David Letterman

  Social Values, Talent, Social

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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