“ Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. Nick Wechsler
“ I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies tha… Christopher Hitchens
“ He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which,… Flannery O'Connor
“ 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
“ In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three. Jaycee Relic
“ I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure. Malcolm Lowry
“ Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery an… Brennan Manning
“ Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, Love your enemies. It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just… Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago. Kristen McNulty
“ Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never w… Charles Martin
“ The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word, to make that one gesture, is running out for them. What gesture, what word, I don't kn… Jose Saramago
“ But making the ugly hurt part human again is not an exercise for the well-meaning social worker in us.This is the most dangerous work you can do. It is like bomb disposal but you are the bomb. That's… Jeanette Winterson
“ 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
