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Redemptive   /rɪdˈɛmptɪv/  /rɪdˈɛmtɪv/   Listen
Redemptive

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or resulting in redemption.  Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory.
2.
Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin.  Synonyms: redeeming, saving.  "Redemptive (or redeeming) love"






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"Redemptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... now and here, it was concluded that this was a part of the divine decree; for could not God do as it pleased Him? But now we realize that this life is not all; that divine love and power are from everlasting to everlasting; that we see here but "parts of His ways;" that the great redemptive scheme may be completed in the ...
— Love's Final Victory • Horatio

... feeling to the twilight borders of intelligence. On the one side, these endowments are a help to friendship. The ardor with which a pure and generous woman enters into choice states of soul in another is a redemptive sight. This capacity of swift perception and sympathy makes the friendship of a woman a precious boon to a man who aims at greatness or perfection; and scarcely ever has there been an illustrious man who has not been appreciated, ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... is a man haunted by the speaking Voice, laboring and striving like one possessed to achieve ends which he only vaguely understands? That the great man may have missed God in his labors, that he may even have spoken or written against God does not destroy the idea I am advancing. God's redemptive revelation in the Holy Scriptures is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Saviour is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God. To me this ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer



Words linked to "Redemptive" :   redeem, good, redemption



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