Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Clive Barker
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 keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving...
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Unknown
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.
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Bell Hooks
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.
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Mark Rowlands
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100, 000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100, 000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100, 000. <span...
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Christopher Hitchens
More Quotes By Michael R. Fletcher
Take the easy road and at the end, you will feel you have achieved nothing. Try the difficult shit and you’ll enjoy your successes.
Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.
Konig couldn't help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes.
Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.
