“ The doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay; and as this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemption, obtained through the means of money given to the Church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that, in truth there is no such thing as redemption — that it is fabulous, and that man stands in the same relative condition with his Maker as he ever did stand since man existed, and that it is his greatest consolation to think so. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable. ”
- William Golding- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We may infer that the work of redemption is the greatest of all God's works of which we have any notice, and it is the end of all his other works. ”
- Jonathan Edwards- Copy
- 161
“ The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. ”
- Dave Eggers- Copy
- 192
“ O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption. ”
- Horace Bushnell- Copy
- 861
“ Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it. ”
- joss whedon- Copy
- 979
“ In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
- 282
“ And now without redemption all mankindMust have been lost, adjudged to death and hellBy doom severe. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Why, all the souls that are were forfeit once;And He that might the vantage best have tookFound out the remedy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 4K
“ I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 430
“ This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 1.2K
“ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. ”
- Dean Koontz- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. ”
- Aung San Suu Kyi- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Thou didst nothing toward thy own creation, for thou wert created for thy Creator's glory; thou must do something toward thy own redemption, for thou wert redeemed for thy own good; He that made thee without thee, will not save thee without thee. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 1.8K
“ How magnificent also is the whole course of geology, or the geologic eras and changes, taken as related to the future great catastrophe of man, and the new-creating, supernatural grace of his redemption. It is as if, standing on some high summit, we could see the great primordial world rolling down through gulfs and fiery cataclysms, where all the living races die; thence to emerge, again and again, when the Almighty fiat calls it forth, a new creation, covered with fresh populations; passing thus, through a kind of geologic eternity, in so many chapters of deaths, and of darting, frisking, singing life; inaugurating so many successive geologic mornings, over the smoothed graves of the previous extinct races; and preluding in this manner the strange world-history of sin and redemption, wherein all the grandest issues of existence lie. ”
- Horace Bushnell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;None but ourselves can free our minds.Have no fear for atomic energy,'Cause none of them can stop the time.How long shall they kill our prophets,While we stand aside and look? Ooh!Some say it's just a part of it:We've got to fulfill the book. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
- 2.2K
- 1
- 2