Essence Quote by Rex Stout

“The real question is: What is expiation? Is it compatible with a pure image of God? Is it not a phase in man’s religious…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we…

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven…

— Harry Lennix

“A sense of guilt, as well as the need for expiation, a baptism of fire, aren't things you can claim an exclusive right to.…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive…

— Bertha von Suttner

“expiation: A sacrifice that wipes away sin. • The expression is used multiple times in the Greek OT for the mercy seat, or golden…

— Scott Hahn

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

— Louis XIV

“She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her…

— Mary McCarthy

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs…

— Charles Dickens

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap…

— Joseph Goebbels

“Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one’s self. But he did not understand that of…

— Victor Hugo