Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the...

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

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...

Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you...

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your...

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

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...

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional — to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. ‘The detective story,’...

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that...

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014″ As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn’t sure how to feel about her, or the fact that I may just have aided in...

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.

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time....

I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it.”You’re absolved,” I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There’s no fucking way he knows what...

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so...

Someone’s forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or ‘in God’s name I absolve you.’ Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences...

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was...

We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.