Redeeming Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

  Jim Jefferies

  Song, Sweet, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence.

  John Taylor

  Learning, Men, Heaven

  John Taylor (2001). “John Taylor”

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• The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Men, Self

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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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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Wisdom, Religious

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• You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Evil, Choices, Slides

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Marriage Workbook: From Surviving to Thriving”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; see Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; recognize in Him the great Messiah who will come again with healing in His wings, to set His people free. He will wrap you about in the cloak of His redeeming love, and your life will be changed forever.

  Alexander B. Morrison

  Jesus, Kings, Healing

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• I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

  John Waters

  Pride, Facts, Values

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cheating, Struggle, Satisfaction

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Gladstone

  "Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

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• I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheist, Religion, President

  "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.

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• Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Positive, Athlete

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• We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Humility, Heart

  "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

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• Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Vices, Human Nature

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Baby, Kids

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

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• Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Pain, Struggle

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• You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Hate, Acceptance, Worst Enemy

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted

  Novala Takemoto

  Dark, Personality, Social

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