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• Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Father, Self Esteem

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Quality, And Love, Redeeming Qualities

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

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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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• I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Quality, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.107, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

  Josh Billings

  Quality, Ugly, Enough

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• Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Waiting, Initiative

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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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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• The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wise, Jobs, Lying

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• I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, School, Thinking

  "Energized Enthusiasm: A Note On Theurgy". The Equinox, Volume 1, No. 9, www.the-equinox.org. Spring 1913.

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• This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

  David Gemmell

  Passion, People, World

  "Legend". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 12, 1984.

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• Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fun, Dirty, Social Values

  "The Venus Belt". Book by L. Neil Smith, 1980.

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• Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

  Theodore Schroeder

  Atheism, Influence, Humans

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• Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

  David Boreanaz

  Believe, Character, Quality

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

  R. L. Stine

  Believe, Book, Kids

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• There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Sea, Play

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.102, B Times

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