Redemption quotations

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◆ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

- S?ren Kierkegaard99

◆ There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

- Bernhard Schlink99

◆ A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

- Bell Hooks99

◆ I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

- Lisa Kleypas99

◆ I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

- Wendell Berry99

◆ It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

- Criss Jami99

◆ No one is ever beyond redemption, if they choose to walk that path.

- Mitch Rowland98

◆ The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.

- C.J. Sullivan98

◆ The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice... Those who admit their own faults and above all, those who believe... A wholehearted trust in Amida Buddha gives peace of mind to those who've known despair. Even the most vicious and evil of sinners will attain salvation and be reborn in paradise... Even a piece of shit like me!

- Naoyuki Ochiai98

◆ Believing in the possibility of resurrection and eternal life, Christians seek ‘redemption' through moral behaviour. But moral behaviour does not, in itself, assuage fear of death, on the contrary, when people come to view themselves as marred by Sin, for instance because they are taught to believe that their most intimate feelings are sinful, this may increase significantly their anxiety about dying.

- Daniel Waterman98