They declared that neither priestly absolution nor any other religious rite could give remission of sins; that the assurance of pardon is obtained by faith alone; and that faith purifies the heart.
The absolution that comes to the penitent after the seventy-times-seven repetitions of a sin is all that the first one was.
Some duties are individual and special, and there is exemption from them for the many, but there is never any absolution from a duty for which a man has a capacity.
But the terms of this secret and the conditions of my absolution are peculiar.
Hear what the Lord saith to the absolution and comfort of penitent believers.
If they had excommunicated her, she would, in the light of history at least, have been given anabsolution more purifying than any they could offer.
To get absolution for himself he resumed the whole story of his silence and its reasons.
All she wanted was contrition galore and absolution absolute.
The pope, he holds, can only grant indulgences for what the pope and the law of the Church have imposed; nay, the pope himself means absolution from these obligations only, when he promises absolution from all punishment.
Further on Luther declares: "When true repentance is awakened in a man, full absolution from punishment and sin comes to him without any letters of indulgence.
Has not Thou given us the law of absolution from a vow, whereby power is given to a learned man to absolve any one from his vows?
Oh, the sweetness of absolution and the ecstasy of prayer!
Because she believed in that even as she believed in her sinfulness as a human being and in the absolutionof her confessor, the Archbishop of Lipara, she could never for one instant doubt their right divine as rulers.
The barbarous exhibition struck the pontiff with horror; he told Giotto he could never give him absolution for so cruel a deed, and that he must expect to suffer the most exemplary punishment.
The Pope promised Giotto the absolution for which he stipulated, and accompanied the artist to his workshop.
The young monk embraced the culprit as a priest is in the habit of doing when he gives absolution to the sinner, and he then alighted from the cart and mingled with the crowd.
The Bishop granted absolution to the Governor; but the soldiers' action had been flat sacrilege at least, for every one of them was forced to pay the fine.
Bent on enhancing their gains, the friars were so ready to grant absolution that criminals of all descriptions resorted to them, and as a result, the worst vices rapidly increased.
On the occasion of a jubilee, he went to confession, paid the last few coins in his scanty store, and joined in the processions, that he might share in the absolution promised.
Nevertheless, the solemn absolution was not pronounced in his favor before the Council of Beaugency, assembled in 1104, twelve years after his first sin in carrying off the lawful wife of his own vassal and kinsman.
A girl, in the garb of the Magdalene, entered the tent of the Cure, and, speaking no word, knelt and received absolution of her sins.
It is of no consequence that I am smoking a cigarette, and that you do not happen to have your stole on--you can give me absolution all the same.
It was not granted to him, because a father of St. Dominic said that absolution ought not to be given him, although the bystanders said that he had called for confession.
He asks for more competent bishops to be sent to the islands; and for authority to be given to religious ministers there to grant absolution for certain impediments to marriage which render divorces among the natives too easy.
By what mystery of self-absolution he had expunged the sinister fact for which Esdaile vouched I could not tell.
Chummy's every breath would not have been his absolution had he not laughed with Esdaile's children and, with Joan perched on the carrier behind him, cheerfully fouled the Santon roads with the stench of his exhaust.
Wilt thou receive the absolution of thy God, the forgiveness of thy sins, through the mediation of my suffering and death?
Not having an immediate answer to what I wrote you, concerning the absolution of Lord Cornwallis's parole, and Major Ross coming over hither from him to press it, I gave him the discharge you desired.
