Redemption quotes
201 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness."
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."
"Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless."
"After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest."
"It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."
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"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."
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
"True redemption is...when guilt leads to good."
"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."
"Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people"
"Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption."
"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."
"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."
"The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul."
"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."
"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."
"It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute."
"Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties."
"Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
"Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting."
"The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving."
"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."
"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."
