I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which… — R. Scott Bakker 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
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson 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
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. — William Butler Yeats 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
“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.” — Bryant McGill 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
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“An overemphasis on teamwork and consensus can cause a kind of mental lethargy. If you subordinate your own expectations to the expectations… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild 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
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
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
“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
...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
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
“abruptly. “That’s the way it always is. People hurt you and walk all over you. They lie to you and betray you,… — Tracie Peterson 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
[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
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