Redemptive Quotes

65 quotes by 48 authors

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but… — Pope Benedict XVI
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… — Flannery O'Connor
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable… — Mary Oliver
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one anotherâ€™s differences in a way that is redemptive, full… — Bell Hooks
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a… — David Foster Wallace
I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend. The times call for great things, but great things in the… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.… — BrenÃ© Brown
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me… — Said Sayrafiezadeh
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the… — John Gresham Machen
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the… — John Ortberg

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