Redemption Quotes - Page 19

• I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.

  Agnes of Rome

  Fall, Heart, Blood

  90 Copy quote

• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Good And Bad, Dangerous

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.

  Ben Lerner

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

  Beth Orton

  Blow, Essence, Poison

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Museums, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Book, Fascination, Cain

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

  Ralph Merkle

  Happy Life, Careers, Healthy

  21 Copy quote

• I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Writing

  47 Copy quote

• Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

  Mark Helprin

  Dream, Memories, Children

  4 Copy quote

• I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Offering, Israel, Soul

  5 Copy quote

• [No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

  Charles Frazier

  Matter, Waste, Path

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.297, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least—is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Thinking, Justice

  Tim Wise (2011). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.269, Soft Skull Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Loss, Funny Things, Important

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Oct 28, 2012

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, War

  5 Copy quote

• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mother, Heart, Boys

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Redemption is never where you expect to find it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.78, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frustration filled his features. "Rose I've done a lot of bad things, most of which I can never fix or find redemption for. My only choice now, if I want to reclaim my life, is to go forward, stopping evil and doing what's right. And what is NOT right is taking a woman from another man, a man I like and respect. I'll steal cars. I'll break into houses. But there are lines I WILL not cross, no matter what I—

  Richelle Mead

  Frustration, Men, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.1872, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

  Lisa McMann

  Waiting, Soul, Lasts

  Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

  Jennifer Egan

  Worry, Transformation, Minutes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.14, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

  Philip Roth

  Errors, Grace, Abuse

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Nov 21, 2016

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Doctrine, Hopeless

  5 Copy quote

• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source