Redeeming Quotes

93 Redeeming quotes by 80 unique authors

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
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming… — Petrarch
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun. — Joaquin Phoenix
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to… — Charles R. Swindoll
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. — Thomas Jefferson
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice. — Oscar Wilde
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he… — Khaled Hosseini
I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear… — Francine Rivers
It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their… — Stephenie Meyer
Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted — Novala Takemoto
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the… — Jeannette Walls
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are… — Thomas Jefferson

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