Redeeming Quotes

Redeeming Quote of the day

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.