Redemption famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
-- Albert Gonzalez -
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.
-- Ambrose -
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.
-- Amy Harmon -
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
-- Amy Waldman -
I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
-- Anson Mount -
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
-- Arthur Middleton -
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
-- Bell Hooks -
You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.
-- Beth Moore -
A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people
-- C. S. Lewis -
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.
-- C. Scott Grow -
The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social
-- Carl F. H. Henry -
[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 -
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
-- Charles Frazier -
The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.
-- Chris Crutcher -
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
-- Colson Whitehead -
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
-- Daniel Defoe -
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
-- Dean Koontz -
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....
-- Denise Levertov -
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
-- Diablo Cody -
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me,
-- Dustin Poirier -
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.
-- Fay Weldon -
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.
-- Friedrich Schleiermacher -
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
-- George Washington -
No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.
-- George Washington -
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
-- Gregory Maguire -
You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.
-- Harlan Coben -
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
-- Henry Miller -
Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
-- Horace Bushnell -
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
-- Ice T -
The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
-- J. C. Ryle -
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.
-- J. C. Ryle -
He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
-- James Hansen -
I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.
-- Jan Hus -
At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
-- Joe Mantello -
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. Inredemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin.
-- John F Walvoord -
Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.
-- John Milton -
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
-- John Milton -
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
-- John Piper -
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
-- John Quincy Adams -
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
-- John Quincy Adams -
The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.
-- Joseph E. B. Lumbard -
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
-- Joyce Maynard -
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
-- Juan Goytisolo -
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.
-- Julian Baggini -
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
-- Kay Ryan -
The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption
-- Kevin DeYoung -
True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?
-- Kitty Kelley -
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
-- Leo Strauss -
A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.
-- Lisa McMann -
From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
-- Lord Acton -
There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.
-- Mark Lawrence -
Truly, God's plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It's about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.
-- Matt Chandler -
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
-- Michael Connelly -
And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.
-- Michael J. Sullivan -
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
-- Michiko Kakutani -
The revelation of His glory includes seeing One so high (transcendence) who went so low (condescension) to bring us so near (redemption) because we are so dear (Bride). The Most High God went so low because of such great desire to partner with us... We are awestruck by His power, overwhelmed by His humility, and made confident by His love.
-- Mike Bickle -
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.
-- N. T. Wright -
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
-- Nick Wechsler -
Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I know my Redeemer. He lives to take away my shame. And He lives forever I'll tproclaim That the payment for my sin was the precious life He gave. But now He's alive and there's an empty grave
-- Nicole C. Mullen -
If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
-- Oswald Chambers -
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
-- Oswald Chambers -
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
-- Oswald Chambers -
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
-- Paul David Tripp -
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
-- Philip Schaff -
Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16)...redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.
-- Rachel Pollack -
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
-- Ravi Zacharias -
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,
-- Ravi Zacharias -
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
-- Raymond Chandler -
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
-- Rick Perry -
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
-- Robert Boyle -
Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
-- Robin Thicke -
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo -
God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.
-- Sam Storms -
God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.
-- Scot McKnight -
Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.
-- Sean Patrick Flanery -
You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.
-- Steve Madden
