"It is the confession, not the priest, that……" — Oscar Wilde

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• 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… — 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,… — 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… — Michael Foley
• 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… — 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,… — 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

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