Quotes About Absolution

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 pain

I am enmeshed in my lies, and I want absolution. I cannot tell the truth because I have felt the heads of men in my womb. The truth would be death-dealing and I prefer fairytales. I am wrapped in lies which do not penetrate my soul. As if the lies I tell were like costumes. The shell of mystery can break and grow again over night. But the moment I step into the cavern of my lies I drop into the darkness. I see a face which stares at me like a cross-eyed man.

Although not a single leader of the Third Reich—not even Hitler himself—was ever excommunicated, Galileo was not absolved of heresy until 1992.

Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his. Moreover, the man's confession of fear or failure tends to mystify the woman's understanding not only of the power dimensions of the relationship between herself and this particular man, but of the relations of power between men and women in general.

A person who goes often to the temple or any worship place must have ample committed sins to be absolved of for oneself.

Taking a dip in any water can only clean the body externally but could never cleanse the soul internally to absolve a person of own committed sin to the people.

Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten.

And won't you take absolution from me, Vittorio!" he said. His voice rose, and his chest seemed to increase in size. "Vittorio and Ursula, take my absolution." "No, Father," I said. "we cannot take it. We don't want it." "But why?" "Because, Father," said Ursula kindly, "we plan to sin again as soon as we possibly can.

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.

telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...

forgiveness and responsibility are not the same thing. No one can absolve him of his responsibility. He will remain responsible for the rest of his life. And he knows it, or he would not have told you what he has done.

Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.

Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

Don't confuse mercy for forgiveness.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...

absuelve y no cuando condena

Cada sexo cree justificarse tomando la ofensiva: pero los entuertos de uno no absuelven al otro.

I also argue that sin (or at least our thinking about it) has evolved significantly since the 1950s and continues to do so, such that Fidel Castro's confident cri de Coeur from the early 1960's, "History will absolve me," could work today for a great many religious Jews and Christians wrestling with their conscience.