Absolution Quotes - Page 2

• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Men, Evil, Heaven

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• 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

  Eugenics, May, Nonsense

  "What I Saw in America". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• ...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It's simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he's concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Cheating, Believe, Judging

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• I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

  Kate Atkinson

  Thinking, Catholic, Would Be

  "Emotionally weird? Moi?". Interview with Kim Bunce, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2000.

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• I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Analysis, Psycho, Confession

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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Confession, Psychoanalysis

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• 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

  Men, Medicine, Hygiene

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.12, Vintage

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• 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

  Frozen, Legs, Height

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Men, Work Out

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.72, Broadview Press

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Justice, Excuse

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.179

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• When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Religion, Cash

  Interview with Joe Hyams in Playboy, February 1963.

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• For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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