Redeeming Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Quality, Fool, Redeeming Qualities

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• Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Circles, Chains That Bind, Soul

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• Our ability to fulfill any assignment is greatly enhanced when we understand the importance of the temple and pay close attention to all that is said and done there. The temple is for redeeming not only the dead but the living as well. All are alive in God, and He is no respecter of persons. Blessings always come from hearing and obeying His word, and His word is never more clear than in the temple.

  John H. Groberg

  Blessing, Alive, Pay

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• How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

  Philip Roth

  Sex, Matter, Corruption

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Exercise, Men, Grace

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• Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

  Charles Colson

  Church, Culture, Missions

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• If the cross does provide us with a true picture of what God is like, it follows that God is a redeeming presence in all creaturely experiences of suffering. All innocent suffering will be transformed.

  Andrew Linzey

  Suffering, Doe, Innocent

  Andrew Linzey (2013). “Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics”, p.164, Oxford University Press

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• Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Army, Men

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• Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Jesus, Fall

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• Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, World, Condescension And

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Dignity, Misfortunes

  George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

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• All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

  William J. Brennan

  Ideas, Justice, Religion

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Energy, Action, Our Lives

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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  Sam Ervin

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

  John Townsend

  Humanity, Suffering, Messages

  "Where is God?: Finding His Presence, Purpose, and Power in Difficult Times". Book by John Townsend, 2009.

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• The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Expression, Lord, Redeeming Love

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• I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

  Joel Spolsky

  Home, Overcoming, Laptops

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