Absolution Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

““Apostasy implies an absolute damnation only on the supposition of a previous perfect faith. Does that fix it?””

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Absolution

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“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”

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I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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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, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise…

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

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“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…

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

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“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…

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“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.”

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“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you…

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