Redeeming Social Importance

Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:

    “The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”
    —Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)

    “Are we talking about a church founded by the Son of God made man? Or are we talking about simply a social gathering that we can rebuild as we wish?”
    —Donna Steichen, U.S. opponent of women in the ministry. As quoted in Time magazine, p. 54 (November 23, 1992)

    “Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men.... It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with man.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)