Redeeming Quotes - Page 5

• I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Childhood, Age

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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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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• There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

  Will Rogers

  Ties, Politics, Election

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Strong, Sex

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• I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

  Callie Khouri

  Character, Thinking, Quality

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• Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Men, Years, Community

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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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• 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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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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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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• Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

  Eden Sher

  Memories, Heart, Nicaragua

  "New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin. What a comforting assurance it is to know that through our Savior's redeeming sacrifice, we can be forgiven and made clean again.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Spiritual, Mistake, Sacrifice

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• Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.

  Orson Pratt

  Honesty, Grateful, Reflection

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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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• Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, the son of Mary, yet God over all, blessed forever. Thus He can bear our sins; He can sympathize with our sorrows; He can fight our battles; He can love as a man, a fellow man, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.

  Horatius Bonar

  Jesus, Blessed, Fighting

  Horatius Bonar (1881). “Light & Truth: Or, Bible Thoughts & Themes. The Gospels”

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• Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

  William Grant Bangerter

  Witty, Honesty, Character

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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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