“Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.” — Bryant McGill 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Dying left no details behind, after all. And most certainly, nothing like absolution awaited the fallen. Absolution comes from the living, not… — Steven Erikson 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 figure I’d find my way to beauty eventually. And I’d find absolution because I’d know, I earned the love of that… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it. "You're absolved," I tell him.… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that although they have a respectable sales pitch, this business of a priest having the power to let… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee 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
“Guilt is not an intrinsically helpful emotion for future decision-making. And often the spiral of guilt and shame can lead criminals to… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been… — Frank Sinatra 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
...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
“The principle of priestly absolution was not a major issue. The Roman Catholic Church has always taught that the priestly words Te… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.” — Bryant McGill 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
“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
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley 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
