Redeeming Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Discovery, Worry

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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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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• I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Play, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

  Amanda McBroom

  Believe, Capacity, Species

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Hypocrite

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• Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Powerful, Soul, Needs

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• Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Gnarly, Apples

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.202, Gibbs Smith

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• I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Hypocrite, Half

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• The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

  Roland Allen

  Men, Redemption, Holiness

  Roland Allen (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.27, The Lutterworth Press

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• Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.

  Wes Fesler

  Men, Cooperation, Ability

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• Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

  Mark Lawrence

  Brother, Men, Bigs

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• The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we must return, each of us individually accepting his ignorance and loneliness, his sin and weakness, and, most difficult of all, consenting to wait in the dark and even to love the waiting

  Helen M. Luke

  Love, Loneliness, Ignorance

  Helen M. Luke (1992). “Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays”, Morning Light Press

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• Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.

  Alexander B. Morrison

  Character, Promise, World

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• There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Baby, Jesus

  "The Wondrous and True Story of Christmas" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. December 2000.

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• The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

  John Oliver

  Feelings, Quality, Artistic

  "The (Not So Fine) Fine Art of The Pun". Interview with Benjamin Phelan, www.gq.com. August 5, 2011.

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• E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
  thy flowing wounds supply,
  redeeming love has been my theme,
  and shall be till I die.

  William Cowper

  Saws, Redeeming Love, Theme

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Poems”, p.111

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• Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

  David Dark

  People, Feelings, Way

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• 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

  Self, Grace, Unbroken

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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