#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

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise.” “Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls…he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness…through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#spirituality #life

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#music #redemption #sin #death

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#forget #lies #longer #makes #redemption

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#aside #deeply #feel #hell #hell is

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room. ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#redemption #beauty

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ↗

— Clive Barker

#inspirational #love #redemption #sadness #art