{"quotes":[{"text":"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 doing, save herself...","author":"Sandra Worth","tags":["absolution","regret"],"id":8482,"author_id":"Sandra+Worth"},{"text":"Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["absolution","conceivable","debating","gratitude","knowing","opinions"],"id":34198,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["absolution","protection","ruthlessness","sanity","teaching","wisdom"],"id":35256,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"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 himself as truly judged and pardoned by God.","author":"Thomas C. Oden","tags":["absolution","christianity","confession","god-s-mercy","sin"],"id":45840,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Oden"},{"text":"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,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.","author":"Kate Summerscale","tags":["absolution","crime","detective-stories","detectives","investigations","mysteries"],"id":51451,"author_id":"Kate+Summerscale"},{"text":"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 faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["absolution","actions","brother-john","change","consequences","forgiveness","odd-thomas","permenance","rodion-romanovich"],"id":69516,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Absolution is not the same as understanding.","author":"Justin Cronin","tags":["absolution","understanding"],"id":70099,"author_id":"Justin+Cronin"},{"text":"© 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 her escape and doomed us all. I wanted to believe that anyone given a second chance would use it wisely. But wisdom I guess is hard to obtain when destiny stands in its way.","author":"Carlyle Labuschagne","tags":["absolution","carlyle-labuschagne","romance-book","science-fiction","the-broken-diaries","the-broken-series","the-broken-trilogy","young-adult"],"id":71202,"author_id":"Carlyle+Labuschagne"},{"text":"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.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["absolution","blame","guilt"],"id":107519,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he’d still be seeking absolution when he took his last breath on some distant day.","author":"Kelly Moran","tags":["absolution","guilt","military-romance","redemption"],"id":122577,"author_id":"Kelly+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}