Confession Quotes
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The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.
— B. J. Daniels
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
— Italo Svevo
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie — Diana Gabaldon
It takes a while for the heat to work in this piece of shit, but when it kicks in, you'll sweat like a fat whore at confession.
— Robyn Peterman
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
— Ryan Stiles
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
— Jack Kerouac
Elizabeth just made her confession of faith, and Jesus wasn't even born yet.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God!
— Billy Graham
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession.
— Siobhan Davis
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
— George Washington
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
— Charles Spurgeon
They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin.
— John Steinbeck
Tell me something about yourself no one else knows, something I can keep for myself.
— Colleen Hoover
The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.
— Edward T. Welch
Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
— Vanna Bonta
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness
— Mia Sheridan
Salvation is based on heart belief and mouth confession; it's not just saying words without heart faith.
— Paul Silway
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
— Fulton J. Sheen
A confession has to be part of your new life.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
— Lance Armstrong
Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost.
— Edward T. Welch
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.
— Wilkie Collins
All art is a confession.
— Gaston Lachaise
Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God!
— T. B. Joshua
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
— Mercedes McCambridge
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
— Bret Easton Ellis
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.
— Isidore Of Seville
Without confession, there is no remission of sins.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towards her.
— Yixing Zhang
My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
— G.K. Chesterton
The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.
— Paul Washer
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, andshut out pardon. — Saint Augustine
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
— Bruce Feiler
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
— Francois Truffaut
The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
— Pope John Paul II
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
— Pete Hamill
With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
— Lisa Brown Roberts
With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understandtoo damning. — Kate Karyus Quinn
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
— Mary Antin
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
— Michelle M. Pillow
The only confession Jolene had ever wrenched from him was that he had cared about her.
— Erin McCarthy
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
— Arthur W. Pink
Confession is a kind of pride.
— Francis Balfour-Browne
The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
— Andrew Soutar
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.
— Alessandra Torre
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
— Richard Sibbes
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
— DeWitt Clinton
Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.
— Bryan Chapell
pride." Job's Confession
— Anonymous
Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
— George Weinberg
The devastation of his actions, his meanness, felt like bags of rancid trash heaped around him.
— Karen Kingsbury
I half hoped he would be shirtless, but then wanted to smack myself at the ridiculous secret confession.
— Alex Rosa
Confession has a "consequence" too - a good consequence! A free and happy heart!
— Stormie O'martian
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
My whole act is confession.
— Shelley Berman
Make this confession out loud: "I am the righteousness of God in Christ.
— Kenneth E. Hagin
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.
— Pope Francis
Faith never makes a confession.
— Henry David Thoreau
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
— Edgar Allan Poe
CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun ... and live to tell about it the next day.
— Ronda Thompson
It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu
— Susan Banfield
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
— Charles Simmons
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
— Jorie Graham
I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.
— Maggie Osborne
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
— Tom Stoppard