Absolution Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R. D. Laing
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his… — Frank Sinatra
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! — Alfred Lord Tennyson
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same… — Martin Chemnitz
Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility. — Laura Schlessinger
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening… — Michael Foley
Like a cross between Paul Auster'sÂ The Book of IllusionsÂ and Janice Lee'sÂ Damnation,Â The Absolution of Roberto Acestes LaingÂ is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E L Doctorow
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. — Germaine Greer
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. — Frank Sinatra
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. — Thomas Hobbes
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. — Oscar Wilde
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance.… — Albert Camus
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you think my husband and his soldiers will be overly upset with me?" The priest broke into a wide grin. "I'll stand by your… — Julie Garwood
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe.… — John le Carre
I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?' He said, 'Yes.' I… — Joseph Towle
From sorrow to serenity, the truth is absolution, from sorrow to serenity, its on your head. — Killswitch Engage

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