Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense. . . a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
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.
One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.
Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.
Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
