Christian Confession Quotes

#1. The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#4. His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.

Joseph Prince

#5. A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.

Paul Washer

#6. Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

R.C. Sproul

#7. As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God's kingdom than by this world, we're reminded we will sometimes slip, but 'if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1:9).

Van Harden

#8. I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.

Studs Terkel

#10. Merciful God.
Faithful God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. O miracle - thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

Georges Bernanos

#13. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

Maximus The Confessor

#16. True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

Jonathan Edwards

#17. We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

Max Lucado