Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for…

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why…

— R. Scott Bakker

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.”

— Spider Robinson

“There's absolution and purity to fucking that strips people back to their primal core.”

— Kitty French

From sorrow to serenity, the truth is absolution, from sorrow to serenity, its on your head.

— Killswitch Engage

“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that…

— Bryant McGill

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

— William Butler Yeats

“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost…

— Amulya Malladi

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you…

— Itzhak Bentov

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

— R. D. Laing

For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest…

— Susan Jacoby

“The principle of priestly absolution was not a major issue. The Roman Catholic Church has always taught that the priestly words Te absolvo (“I…

— R.C. Sproul