But already among the rough factory workers, manual toil had appeared to him necessary and redemptive, in spite of all the misery and abominable injustice to which it led.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
Contriving often to meet Amy, he had grown rapidly more and more fond of her-became indeed as much in love with her as was possible to him; and though the love of such a man can never be of a lofty kind, it may yet be the best thing in him, and the most redemptive power upon him.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
But he lived for his own age and his own people; the Jesus of the critics has but little to say, and no redemptive virtue issues from him to us.
"The Reconciliation of Races and Religions"
Thomas Kelly Cheyne