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Quotes About Redemption

Gott hat mir das Kind gegeben!, schrie sie. Er gab es mir als Ausgleich für alles, was ihr mir genommen habt! Sie ist meine Freude!- sie ist auch meine Qual! Pearl hält mich in diesem Leben. Und Pearl bestraft mich. Seht ihr nicht, sie ist der Scharlachbuchstabe, imstande nur, geliebt zu werden, und darum millionenfach ausgestattet mit der Macht, mich für meine Sünden zu bestrafen. Ihr werdet sie mir nicht nehmen! Eher sterbe ich!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Es war der letzte Ausdruck der Kleinmütigkeit einer gebrochenen Seele. Ihm fehlte die Energie, nach dem besseren Schicksal zu greifen, das in seiner Reichweite schien. Er wiederholte das Wort. Allein Hester! Du wirst nicht allein gehen! flüsterte sie leise zur Antwort. Damit war alles gesagt.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
What can a ruined soul, like mine, effect towards the redemption of other souls??—or a polluted soul towards their purification?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed into thy life!—that have made thee feeble to will and to do!—that will leave thee powerless even to repent! Up, and away!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I will not speak! answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to this voice, which she too surely recognized. And my child must seek a heavenly father; she shall never know an earthly one!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ delinquencies
Heaven would show mercy," rejoined Hester, "hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ What could it be
Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ Where is she?
I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia after the youngest member of the family Romanov she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been
~ Neal Shusterman
All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
~ Neal Shusterman
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
~ Neal Shusterman
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
~ Neal Shusterman
She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving
~ Neal Shusterman
I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.
~ Neal Shusterman
Had she lived, who knows what she might have done. Perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.
~ Neal Shusterman
Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds. As long as remorse is sincere, and one is willing to make recompense, there is no purpose to suffering.
~ Neal Shusterman
He tries to think of other things, other places, but his mind keeps being drawn back to this place. Everyone's so close around him now. Yellow figures lean all around him like flower petals closing in. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
~ Neal Shusterman
But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.
~ Neal Shusterman