Redeeming Quotes

93 quotes by 80 authors

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask… — Bill Watterson
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits… — Henry David Thoreau
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver
There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of… — Alexander B. Morrison
The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we… — Helen M. Luke
Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls. — Bobby McFerrin
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. — Jeannette Walls
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the… — David Dark
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to… — Henry David Thoreau
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. — Josh Billings
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative. — Abba Eban
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love. — Amanda McBroom
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in… — John Harvey Kellogg
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex. — David Bowie
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think… — Callie Khouri
There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie,… — Will Rogers
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. — Benjamin Disraeli
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. — Marian Wright Edelman

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