Quotes About Redemption

'Solomon Creed' is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity.

Redemption happens in many forms. It happens when one takes responsibility even when one need not.

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.

My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.

For Clinton, I don't see redemption. She is a corrupt political operative of the worst kind.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

He's evil. I believe in redemption, but I haven't seen any redeeming qualities in Henry Kissinger.

Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there's hope for everyone... I think redemption is possible for anybody.

What we need to do is fundamentally shift the justice system by bringing redemption to the forefront and making sure that second chances are possible in this country.

I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know.

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

While I believe in second chances and giving players an opportunity for redemption, I also believe that playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right.

I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption.

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every theory seems almost right.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

But on this 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis, it is important to remember that this evil did happen in America, and that no engineered redemption can make us innocent again. And we might also remember that it is better to be chastened than innocent.

Who doesn't like a redemption story?

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.