Top 158 Redeeming Quotes & Sayings

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

I think there's something redeeming about trying to follow your passion.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

I'm involved in so many cool and interesting and redeeming things. I'm enjoying every day.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

If you know me, you know I mutter quite a bit. Not one of my most redeeming qualities.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

Even after I had a baby, quite quickly I lost my tummy. But when I was pregnant, my redeeming feature disappeared overnight and I was left with an enormous bum and thighs.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly a patron of the arts because he goes to the opera.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

He's evil. I believe in redemption, but I haven't seen any redeeming qualities in Henry Kissinger.

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.