Weekend Words: Redemption
The news has been so grim this week that just about the only amusing thing that happened is Eliot Spitzer trying to steal Anthony Weiner's ticket for the Redemption Sweepstakes. Will somebody say "Amen"?
The news has been so grim this week that just about the only amusing thing that happened is Eliot Spitzer trying to steal Anthony Weiner’s ticket for the Redemption Sweepstakes. Will somebody say “Amen”?
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
—Adlai Stevenson
“Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.”
—Sylvester Stallone
“Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
—Cyril Connolly
“The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.”
—Vance Packard
“There’s still time for redemption if I live long enough, don’t you think?”
—Kitty Kelley
“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.”
—George Bernard Shaw
