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And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

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Saul BellowThe Adventures of Augie March

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...

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A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great...

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For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere...

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If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep...

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the ...

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Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off foreve...

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We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to ...

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A man without regrets cannot be cured.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the ...

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

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Brennan ManningThe Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

But who is Aslan? Do you know him?""Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son o...

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C. S. LewisThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

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I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless s...

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Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...

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There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to ...

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What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? Wh...

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Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

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It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

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It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man...

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The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is th...

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The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the ...

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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

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Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. A...

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If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

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Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

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Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold t...

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That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

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One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to r...

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Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain y...

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She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

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Philip PullmanThe Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth t...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.