#redemption

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #black #brought #constitutes #effort

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#christ #claimed #cross #did #die

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. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#distinguishes #evolution #god #incarnation #kingdom

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

— Trey Parker

#christian #culture #even #jesus #just

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

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. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#art #called #chandler #disciple #essays

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#doctrine #fundamental #gives #gospel #more

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. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance. ↗

— John Rowland

#absolutely #aspect #chance #city #get

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially