Absolution Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
— R. D. Laing
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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
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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
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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
— Laura Schlessinger
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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
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert…
— Brian Evenson
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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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
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From sorrow to serenity, the truth is absolution, from sorrow to serenity, its on your head.
— Killswitch Engage
Who Wrote These Absolution Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Absolution Quotes as follows: