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Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute. -- Toni Petrinovich
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know. -- Emily Thorne
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. -- Germaine Greer
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. -- Seamus Heaney
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 thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. -- Martin Chemnitz
I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing. -- Hugh Laurie
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? -- Rick Perlstein
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. -- Oscar Wilde
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. -- R. D. Laing
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar. -- C. A. Bartol
Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility. -- Laura Schlessinger
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. -- William Butler Yeats
Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours. -- Bryant McGill
Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. -- Asa Don Brown
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. -- E. L. Doctorow
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. -- 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
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. -- Thomas Hobbes
The City is free of sinThe snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that fallsOh no, the city is in a nightgown -- Pierre Albert-Birot
Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves. -- Michael Foley
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. -- Coventry Patmore
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts? -- Mahatma Gandhi
You shouldn't ask for forgiveness. Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution. -- Meg Howrey
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. -- Oscar Wilde
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution. -- H. L. Mencken
He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution. -- Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
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. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. -- Albert Camus
If their tears could be read,as the blind can read brailleWould your eyes then be openedto another & how they feel?Without condemnation or any aversions from withinCould you set aside judgementwhile seeking total absolution? -- Christine Upton

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