Long hard road to get that redemption. But no shortcuts to a blessin.
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Quotes tagged ‘Redemption’
Honey Boy doesn’t necessarily offer absolution — nor does LaBeouf seem to be seeking it — but it does something better and more necessary: It explains how he got here and how he’s attempting to fix it. It’s a hard lesson for any man to learn, and an even harder narrative to deliver.
I just don’t for a second, in any possible universe, believe there is an all-knowing creature who is going to scoff at me in the afterlife.
Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you? Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the spirit whose coming was foretold to you. Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't look like a ghost. Ghost of Christmas Past: Thank you. Ebenezer Scrooge: May I inquire more precisely who or what you are? Ghost of Christmas Past: I am the Ghost of…
— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com
Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Cardinal Lamberto, Raf Vallone, imdb.com
Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
— Frank Darabont, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Morgan Freeman, imdb.com
Salvation is ours through the redemption of others
I'm not here for your absolution, I'm here for your redemption.
You did a terrible thing, but just because you made one bad move, or 30, doesn’t mean you can’t make a good one now.
— Andrew Chambliss, Bill Wolkoff, Regina Mills, Lana Parrilla, imdb.com
There is no easy way out of the Badlands. No shortcuts, no deals. I know that now. Maybe Sunny and I don’t deserve redemption. Maybe my darkness will never be tamed. There’s one thing I know for sure. The journey has just begun.
— Michael R. Perry, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, M.K., Aramis Knight, imdb.com
I sat in this hole for thousands of years, thinking of nothing but redemption, of reclaiming my good name. I thought of nobody, no cause, other than my own.
You'll understand what it is to live with the words embedded and that glorious sense of freedom you feel when those doors are unchained.
We locate those we have hurt. We leave these vessels, our bodies, and take the vessel of the one we have caused pain. We live in the pain that we have inflicted. We suffer as the sufferer does.
Where there is transgression, there is also transformation.
Redemption must be preceded by atonement. It is earned, not offered. If you want amends, you have to make them.
Why do we need to talk about the redemption of men when we are right in the middle of the salvation of women? Not even the middle, but the very beginning? Why are we obligated to care about salvaging male careers when we have just begun to tell the stories that have plagued us for lifetimes? It seem…
Satan ever from the beginning hath declared himself enemy to the free and undeserved love of God. He hath now in these most corrupt days most furiously raged against that doctrine, which attributeth all praise and glory of our redemption to the eternal love and undeserved grace of God alone.
I know who I am as a storyteller: I want to feel hope about people’s abilities to incrementally learn. This is related to the reason why you don’t see movies and television about Republican and conservative ideas — because Republicans are trying to present themselves as correct, as clean, as Mike Pe…
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
— Buddha, amazon.com
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.