Redeeming Quotes - Page 6

• Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Dignity, Misfortunes

  George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  Sam Ervin

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Energy, Action, Our Lives

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• All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].

  William J. Brennan

  Ideas, Justice, Religion

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Expression, Lord, Redeeming Love

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