Redemption quotes
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"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."
"God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ."
"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."
"No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54)."
"No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption."
"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."
"Action is redemption."
"Poetry is a means of redemption."
"There's more to life than physical and material."
"There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing."
"Redemption is invented by the sinner."
"Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs."
"The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless."
"This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside."
"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."
"I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it."
