#redemption

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#exorcism #motivational

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#become #commodities #country #currency #gold

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#defiance #heart #inspiring #learning #philosophy

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #redemption #friendship

There is a way to be good again ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#betrayal #life #love #new-life #redemption

Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through ↗

— A.R. Ammons

#love

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

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

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me— ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

I will love you until the day after forever-Beautiful Chaos ↗

— Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #beautiful-redemption #beauty