To be absolved, especially
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
Absolution
Offer it up personally,then.
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated … Read more
I have committed many
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
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. Frank Sinatra
There are things about
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions…I’m for decency—period. I’m for anything … Read more
The sunshine dreaming upon
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
Self-condemnation is God’s absolution;
Self-condemnation is God’s absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar. C. A. Bartol
Like a cross between
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 slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which … Read more
Forgive! How many will
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! Alfred Lord Tennyson
No excuses ever, for
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