Joyce Meyer

It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

American Author

Irvine Welsh

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.

Scottish Novelist

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Ricky Hatton

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

British Athlete

Hunter Tylo

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

American Actress

Fred Willard

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

American Comedian

Greg Sestero

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

American Actor

Felix Dennis

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

British Publisher

Angela Stanton-King

I turned my life around. I have completely redeemed my life.

Isaac Mayer Wise

American Clergyman

Used when someone improves their situation or image after a failure.

Personal recovery

Conveys a strong sense of personal improvement or vindication.

Emotional impact

Can refer to collecting rewards or benefits, not just physical items.

Not always physical

Implies you must do something to get the value or benefit.

Active action

In a financial context, it means to fulfill a monetary commitment.

Financial obligation

Financial redemption is often seen as a positive action by companies.

Positive connotation

Often used in religious contexts referring to salvation from sin.

Soteriological term

Implies a moral or spiritual rescue, beyond physical or material help.

Moral or spiritual

 she redeems an insufferable grandmother for forgiving a hardened criminal, even as he closes in on her family. Though we might balk at the price the woman pays for this redemption, we’re forced to confront the nuance in moments we might otherwise consider purely violent or evil. O’Connor’s mastery of the grotesque

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 to well see if he'll be able to redeem himself a little bit later we'll think of another challenger he can take part in as soon as that I accepted a chance is very good so help me maybe you can all help me shall we do this same some suggestions through and what challenge

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 without hate, argument and throwing over the table. Now, anybody can learn these tactics, as I've said, and we really need to understand that we can offer people forgiveness and a chance to redeem themselves from their mistakes. Somebody gave us a chance to grow,

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 And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier. Now I said I have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from, so we are going to do one more intervention. I want to tell you

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 where the bad is redeemed by the good. People leading meaningful lives, he's found, tend to tell stories about their lives defined by redemption, growth and love. But what makes people change their stories? Some people get help from a therapist,

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 and to question what freedom really means. She urges readers to ponder the power we have over each other, and to use that power wisely. In this way, "Beloved" remains a testimony to the destructiveness of hate, the redeeming power of love,

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 their communities in exchange for points which they can then redeem for household items electronics and even cash the waste is then processed and sold to large-scale with cyclists the households are basically been

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 We need those face-to-face interactions where we learn the choreography of altruism and where we create those spiritual goods like friendship and trust and loyalty and love that redeem our solitude.

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 I was sentenced to irrelevance -- the opposite of humanity. Interestingly, it was during those years in prison that a series of letters redeemed me,

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 He might be a poor nest-builder but he is redeeming himself now.

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