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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #redemption
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. ↗
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. ↗
Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗
#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ↗
Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure and bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off the walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of the two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you are doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like. ↗
#inspirational #intention #life #rita-hayworth #shawshank-redemption
