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The woman could get a confession faster than a priest. — B. J. Daniels

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time. — Pericles

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

I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again. — Jenny Han

This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession. — Siobhan Davis

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. — Colleen Hoover

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. — Kenneth Tynan

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

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession. — Ellen Hopkins

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

So this is my Pathetic Loser's confession: I am Oren Tenning, and I have fallen. Hard. — Linda Kage

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler

I told myself this was probably a bad idea, to let him kiss me into a confession. But, I reasoned, if there was ever a way to cave, this was it. — Kiera Cass

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. — John Hay Beith

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

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. — R.M. Ford

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 understand
too damning. — Kate Karyus Quinn

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. — Mary Antin

My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing. — LeCrae

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

We are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. — Hilary Mantel

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

'God help me, yes. I don't want anything more than you. I want nothing less than you.' — T.J. Klune

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. — Frank McCourt

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

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work. — Pawan Mishra

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

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier

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

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff

Fantastic," I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. "I'm just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world."
Spencer Nye — Jason Letts

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father. — Pope Francis

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