Quotes About Redemption

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done.

Every man seeking salvation had a signature weakness to remind him of his nullity before the Lord and complicate communion with Him.

Agli inizi della carriera ero così fesso da credere che il lavoro consistesse nell'individuare un colpevole tra la massa degli innocenti. In realtà si tratta casomai di trovare uno o due innocenti che meritano di essere salvati in mezzo alla massa dei cattivi.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

With writing, we have second chances.

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering

Ich versuche mich an alles zu erinnern, was ich getan habe, Oskar. Und alles, was ich nicht getan habe. Die Fehler, die ich begangen habe, sind mir egal. Aber was ich nie getan habe, kann ich auch nicht zurücknehmen.

I beseech you to forgive us, and to make us better than we are. Make us good.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

The soul was not ready to transcend, but was sent back, given a chance to right a previous generation's wrong.

It wasn't too late to turn around, before I got to the place I couldn't come back from.

God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

El tiempo no rehace lo que perdemos, la eternidad lo guarda para la gloria y también para el fuego.

En Alejandría se ha dicho que sólo es incapaz de una culpa quien ya la cometió y ya se arrepintió; para estar libre de un error, agreguemos, conviene haberlo profesado

God made Himself totally a man but a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of reprobation and the abyss. To save us, He could have chosen *any* of the destinies which make up the complex web of history; He could have been Alexander or Pythagoras or Rurik or Jesus; He chose the vilest destiny of all: He was Judas.

Agustín había escrito que Jesús es la vía recta que nos salva del laberinto circular en que andan los impíos;