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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Quality, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.107, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Useless

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• 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.

  Edward T Welch

  Jesus, Father, Self Esteem

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

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Powerful, Love Is, Fiction

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

  Jeannette Walls

  Quality, And Love, Redeeming Qualities

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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

  Josh Billings

  Quality, Ugly, Enough

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

  Abba Eban

  Men, Waiting, Initiative

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Acceptance, Self, Giving

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love Is, Evil, Quality

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

  Petrarch

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Notable Thoughts About Women: A Literary Mosaic". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311, 1882.

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cheating, Struggle, Satisfaction

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Shards of Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Joy, Humanity

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• I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Vices, Particles

  "Answers to Correspondents". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The Californian (June 17, 1865), reprinted in Mark Twain's book "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches", 1867.

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• War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Loyalty, War, Marine

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• Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

  Anne Rice

  Might, Way, Happens

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• 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.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Fun, Play, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Evil, Choices, Slides

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Marriage Workbook: From Surviving to Thriving”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

  Francine Rivers

  Girl, Hurt, Heart

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• Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted

  Novala Takemoto

  Dark, Personality, Social

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• You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Hate, Acceptance, Worst Enemy

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

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• He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Vices

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