“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.” — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he’d still be seeking absolution when he took his last… — Kelly Moran Copy Share Image
“Absolution is the only escape. You must find a way to forgive the people who did this, or your rage will consume… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be loved despite my history: I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into and growing-out-of, someone to watch… — Lisa Marie Basile Copy Share Image
“I understand why sin eaters were made. Carrying such feelings is too much for one little heart, too much for one body.… — Megan Campisi Copy Share Image
“...confession is believed to reveal the deep truths of who people are (...) Michel Foucault once wrote that we live in a… — Rich Villodas Copy Share Image
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“So what actually goes on with all this religion business? Does it really matter whether you’re a Gnostic, a Christian, a Muslim,… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Apostasy implies an absolute damnation only on the supposition of a previous perfect faith. Does that fix it?” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014 " As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn't sure how… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
“Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Really? Nolan thought it over. What if he didn’t want to forgive the CIA back? What if he didn’t want absolution bestowed… — Bradley West Copy Share Image