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Redeeming social value, indeed. -- Simon Sheppard
Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church. -- Charles Colson
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege. -- Leslie Jamison
Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning. -- Colin S. Smith
Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.Redeeming social value, indeed. -- Simon Sheppard
My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything. -- Francine Rivers
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
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. -- Marian Wright Edelman
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love. -- Amanda McBroom
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. -- Ellen Goodman
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. -- John Oliver
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value. -- James Gleick
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
I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again. -- Pablo Schreiber
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into. -- Michael Leunig
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
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. -- Roland Allen
I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. -- Callie Khouri
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. -- Sissy Spacek
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
A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to. -- Charles Dance
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
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write. -- Helen Garner
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
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Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power. -- George Stillman Hillard
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferson
Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice. -- Winston Churchill
As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any. -- John Waters
Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself. -- Wes Fesler
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. -- Jeannette Walls
Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. -- John Waters
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. -- Paula Sharp
The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. -- Theodore Schroeder
I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value. -- David Letterman
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. -- Lance Armstrong
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex. -- David Bowie
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. -- Mark Twain
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value. -- R. L. Stine
Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids. -- Rick Riordan
...the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering. -- John Townsend
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative. -- Abba Eban
Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark. -- Israelmore Ayivor
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. -- Josh Billings
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun . When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp. -- L. Neil Smith
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out. -- Ivan Goncharov
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion. -- David Gemmell
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics. -- John Hurt
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal. -- Deepak Chopra
Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature? -- Mark Lawrence
Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls. -- Bobby McFerrin
Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be. -- David Boreanaz
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. -- Ralph Barton Perry
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die. -- William Cowper
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
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
Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world. -- Alexander B. Morrison
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
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
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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
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. -- Jeannette Walls
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye. -- Henry David Thoreau
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people. -- David Dark
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera. -- Ian McDiarmid
Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart -- Pope John Paul II
There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again. -- Will Rogers
Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That's what makes us human. -- Matt Bomer
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pÃ¦derastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. -- Aleister Crowley
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
Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior. -- Rajneesh
If the cross does provide us with a true picture of what God is like, it follows that God is a redeeming presence in all creaturely experiences of suffering. All innocent suffering will be transformed. -- Andrew Linzey

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