Redemption Quotations

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

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.

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

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.

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.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.

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.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

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.

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

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.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

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.

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.

There's more to life than physical and material.

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

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.

All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

The other thing is the redemption going on mutual and hedge funds due to declining stock valuations. We've seen a good level of liquidation recently where some of these funds that have been holding gold stocks are selling them to lock in profits. This kind of activity is still going to take a couple of days to unravel.

We knew what was on the line when we came in here. They wanted redemption from that Christmas tournament and I thought if we kept it close and gave ourselves a chance to win at the end of the game, we were going to be just fine.

Words don't describe how that feels. That's probably the biggest win we've had since I've been here. We should have beat them the first time, but this time was redemption and it feels really good.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

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.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....

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.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

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.

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.

What we do have is nothin' but time. Welcome to the Shawshank Redemption of late night!

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.

We hope what people are feeling comes from the gesture this little girl makes for her family. It comes from some enlightened position. We hope the ending feels like redemption for the family, coming through Eliza. And we hope people ascribe meaning to it, and bring their own personal experiences to it.

There is redemption in every song.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

Last year we felt we were robbed by getting a red card against Cactus and Sabino won, so this was kind of redemption. We got our redemption and I'm really happy.

I would say being in the relay is a slight redemption for her, but it's not what she wanted. Her goal was to make it to state as an individual (in the 200 IM). She's happy to be going, but it's not the dream. You have to have a dream, a goal, and it's disappointing when you work hard every day, and that's what she does.

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.

I see him as a man reborn. He stands for redemption and a second chance at life.

Redemption is good. All of us by nature have tremendous pride in what we do. We not only have Ted and Sam wanting to prove themselves, we have some other guys who want to prove themselves.

Redemption days are going to be very important this year.

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

Midweek reward redemption has a lot more seats available the Saturday and Sunday.

You are absolutely correct. The Millions More Movement is for all of us. . . . Please be assured that any member of our community that has gifts, skills, and talents to plan for the redemption of our people will be welcomed at the table.

We've known for the last few months that Bush is on his Bob Jones redemption tour, but now we know who the sponsors are: the tobacco industry, HMOs and insurance companies, and the gun lobby.

We have to play for the present. What happened earlier in the year is done with. Maybe a little redemption will be on our minds, but (I'm) definitely not worried about it.

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.

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.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen.

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.

Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.

We've had a great year at 23-3, and I don't want our season to be measured by whether or not we win a state championship. That would be unfair. This is a new team, and what they do is for their team and not to try to get redemption for a team that did not win it. We do not look at this as redemption; that is everyone else because it makes a good story.

This was a redemption win because we shot so poorly against Chanute.

Everything that happens leads to salvation, ... Even if there is destruction, in the end, redemption will come.

As there will be relatively large level of redemption of Australian dollar-denominated bonds coming up, talk of unwinding of yen-carry positions is likely to drag on the dollar.

And when it comes down to it, especially with a team like the New York Rangers and our team Montreal, two points at the end of the season could determine whether you're in the payoffs or not. I think you need to focus obviously more on winning hockey games than maybe redemption. I think redemption will come with beating the other team.

There's got to be a little bit of redemption there. He knows he screwed up.

The world's poor cannot be led by people like Mr. bin Laden who think they can find their redemption in our destruction. But the world's rich cannot be led by people who play to our short-sided selfishness and pretend that we can forever claim for ourselves what we deny to others.

It was very strange. We had obviously a lot more time to tell the story than we did when we were shooting the series. But ... to me it just felt like so similar ... to the show. ... Everything just felt a little more spectacular. It just felt a little grander, and there was a wonderful feeling of redemption to sort of come back with these people. It was this great reunion, and so it was a wonderful energy on the set.

It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.

The seats will become available for redemption on May 1 and Voyager members will be able to start flying from June 1.

A day ago, nobody wanted to give us a chance. We came out and we did what we had to do. We knew it would be tough to come into Indianapolis, and they beat us pretty good the last time. This is kind of redemption for us.

A winning team doesn't do dumb things, and we did a lot of dumb things the other day, ... Redemption is not the word, getting better is what you call it. Last week we laid an egg. The whole team did. ... We just need to line up and play.

Alex Knight was a big victory for us. It was a bit of redemption for Olympus. He beat Ryan Gonzales of Payson, who was a defending champion, and two years ago Gonzales beat a guy from Olympus that was a defending champ. It felt good to kind of get a payback.

The week after Christmas in our business is virtually as good as the week before Christmas. In the last couple of years, the retail business between Christmas and Jan. 15 is much greater than in previous years because of the redemption of gift cards.

This change if you will ... this may be one of the top two or three memorable moments in reward redemption history over the last 25 years.

This is a forgiving country. People love redemption stories.

There's a certain class of mutual fund investors who are quite sensitive to negative news. And you can identify those people by redemption behavior, which did start to pick up last year, ... However, in the aggregate, mutual fund inflows are slowing, they're not declining.

It was borderline embarrassing. We're definitely looking for some kind of redemption to change things from last year. Everyone's still a little angry about that one, you know, ending your season like that.

It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are two themes: The knife-edge relationship between revenge and redemption and the duality of natures that you can have within one person.

The next show, the first Friday in December, was the Redemption Show ? to redeem ourselves.