Sentences with phrase «need of redemption»

Much religious teaching has been dedicated to convincing us that man is inherently evil and desperately in need of redemption.

We still commit sin and we are still in need of redemption, but our relationships are in and of themselves sin.

hey Robert Brown - you are the hypocrite, bud, in dire need of redemption, not me.

Love is in desperate need of redemption.

Mental degradation symbolizes the human condition in its fundamental need of redemption.

It is not easy, even for the voice of truth to assert itself with the same ringing majesty as of old; the message ofsalvation and new hope has lost its loud fearlessness, and Christendom itself, the haven of the world, is urgently in need of a redemption within itself.

And pity humanity, ever finding fresh ways to express its depths of depravity, and desperately in need of redemption by the God whose image we repeatedly deface in our inhumanity to one another.

Jon Hamm is even better as the character in need of redemption here.

There, he joins forces with Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), a disgraced geneticist in need of redemption with access to an antidote.

Washed - up boxer Charlie Kenton is a douchebag in dire need of redemption.

Forgetting the direction toward honesty, many Christians seem to believe that what Scripture means by «pure» and by «lovely» is merely the pleasant and the naive, the Hallmark Channel, not the reality of a world in need of redemption.

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

In a phone interview from his home in Plains, he said politics is one area in need of redemption, bemoaning the influx of vitriol and money into politics.

Even in the tension and pain of knowing thatI don't know, of knowing that I am biased and I have much to learn, of knowing that I am prideful and deeply in need of redemption every day, I am strangely, bizarrely, more happy here.»

I began to understand what she meant — that Penny is no more or less human than I am, no more or less born in sin, no more or less blessed, no more or less in need of redemption.

Even in the tension and pain of knowing that I don't know, of knowing that I am biased and I have much to learn, of knowing that I am prideful and deeply in need of redemption every day, I am strangely, bizarrely, more happy here.

Neo-orthodoxy has recovered for us a profound analysis of the reality of sin and the need of redemption.

«Adhere to faith in love, because this nation has too many dark, bitter, and poisoned souls in need of redemption, because there exists too much vigilance, fear, and hostility between people.

A common feature of them both is their basic dualism, according to which the present world and its human inhabitants are under the control of demonic, satanic powers, and stand in need of redemption.

The bottom line for me is that I am wretched and in need of redemption, but in the truth that seems to be present in paradox, God values me enough to have sacrificed to provide that redemption.

Some protest that this affirmation comes at a cost: You can not receive it unless you first abase yourself as a hopeless and helpless sinner in need of redemption.

When he tells the priest, who senses the presence of a sinner in need of redemption, «I do what I'm good at,» it's with a mixture of pride and resignation.

He's an alcoholic ex-cop in need of redemption and (not so incidentally) a job.

He always seems to play the overly nice guy, but here he gets to play someone in need of redemption.

He plays the sort of down on his luck attorney audiences just love to root for, an empathetic underdog in need of redemption.

This is a character sorely in need of redemption, and it is to the film's credit that Joseph's upward trajectory turns out to be so gripping to watch.

Worst - case scenario: Bradley Cooper is an asshole in need of redemption (and an Oscar nomination).

Grim Legends 3: The Dark City Don the mantle of a relentless monster huntress in a crumbling city in need of redemption!