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Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.