Redemption is the act of restoring someone to a prior state of grace, to save them from their sins. Redemption is a common theme in fiction, with many different views on it. Redemption quotes can help you give yourself an second chance. These motivational quotes can bring you salvation or some kind of redemption that you look forward to.
In Christian theology, redemption is the process of being spiritually restored to a state of righteousness before God. In the Bible, the Gospels tell how Jesus sacrificed himself to redeem humanity from sin and thereby reconcile humanity with God. Redemption is an act of forgiveness for sins or mistakes. It is the process of forgiving another person, oneself, or God for sin.
Redemption can be achieved by confession to a priest and accepting the penance, which may include prayers, fasting, service to others or some other action. Motivational quotes about redemption are here below
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”
Joss Whedon
“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
Martin Buber.
“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”
Criss Jami, ‘Killosophy’.
“Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.
Evinda Lepins.
“Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.”
Dave Eggers, ‘Zeitoun’.
“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”
Robert Jordan, ‘The Great Hunt’.
“[No] matter what a waste one has made of one’s life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
“If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.”
Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It’s so clear, you see, that if we’re to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.”
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.”
Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
“Redemption can be found in hell itself if that’s where you happen to be.”
Lin Jensen.
“The power that is to redeem him must be a power working within, not without.”
Lyman Abbott.
“True redemption is seized when you accept the future consequences for your past mistakes.”
Eduardo Macedo
“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.”
Tennessee Williams.
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth.
“Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”
Jim Valvano.
“Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.”
Dave Eggers, Zeitoun.
“Usually redemption implies rescue – being saved. What were you being saved from?’ he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. ‘Ugliness.”
Amy Harmon, A Different Blue.
“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”
Leo Strauss.
“To be saved is here, local and mortal”
A.R. Ammons.
“I look around at people and I often wonder if the darkness within them has any idea that there could be something other than darkness.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough.
“Without redemption, there is no reformation.”
Lailah Gifty Akita.