#redemption

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#bleak #christian-behavior #loss-of-faith #misery #no-redemption

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#life

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

— Amy Waldman

#self-confident #life

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night. ↗

— Travis Thrasher

#christian-fiction #good-reads #horror #redemption #solitary

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #morality #redemption #crime

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#jesus-christ #redemption #salvation #death

I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#arrogant #auditioning #character #cox #did

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.' ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#both sides #bring #debate #decide #end

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. ↗

— Patti Smith

#difficult #difficult times #even #good #good news

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#age