Sentence examples for human redemption from inspiring English sources

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

The Chester plays are rich in content, yet tell the great story of human redemption more simply than the other surviving cycles of York, Wakefield, and "N-Town".

A robed horseman named Mescalito appears and prophesies, "Ulysses Grant will lead great masses of men in the glorious cause of their human redemption".

The result was a moment of courtroom drama and human redemption led by an 81-year-old judge eager to make amends for a decision he had long regretted.

The father who sets his son on fire in "The Shrine at Altamira," for instance, stands no chance of human redemption but he gets something very like it through the self-immolation of his son.

But after reading through several dozen of the testimonies, amid the disquiet, I began to feel as if I were bearing witness to a small moment of human redemption.

This tense, antinomical combination of transcendence and immanence produces an uneasy hybrid, in which history as a narrative of the human march towards redemption on the Day of Judgement loses the eschatological certainty of its redemptive conclusion, and becomes secularized into a mere natural setting for the profane struggle over political power.

Not so Jeanette Winterson, whose new novel is a modern rewriting of the story which pays tribute to its imaginative riches and message of human hope and redemption.

In his first major speech as justice secretary, in June, Gove said that prisoners "can become assets – citizens who can contribute and demonstrate the human capacity for redemption".

The main accusations against Drewermann were that he denied the historicity of revelation, that he disputed the fundamental doctrine that Jesus was the son of God, and that he doubted the human need for redemption.

And in that way the film became more than just a woman's film about a girl hiking, it became a human story of redemption and sacrifice and learning what true north is in this world".