Top 100 Confess Quotes
#1. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#2. I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Zane Grey
#3. Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.
William Shakespeare
#4. It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first.
Orhan Pamuk
#5. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...
Abraham Lincoln
#7. To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
Charles Darwin
#8. I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel McAdams
#9. I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#10. Consecration is a process of surrender that never ends. And prayer is the catalyst. It begins with a sinner's prayer. We confess our sins to the Savior and surrender our lives to His lordship. And along the way, our spiritual journeys are
Mark Batterson
#11. I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon
#12. Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.
Sufjan Stevens
#14. Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
Tony Campolo
#15. I think I shall like you again, and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only like, but love you
with truth, fervour, constancy.
Charlotte Bronte
#16. Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
Honore De Balzac
#17. She was inwardly delighted, but didn't express her consent. Perhaps this is woman's way of making love. They don't confess easily.
Tarif Naaz
#18. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#19. I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined
Lisa Kleypas
#20. For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
H.G.Wells
#21. A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.
Edward Gibbon
#22. I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess
To murdering Merry in her little dress.
To strangling and raping and making a mess.
To all of these charges the answer is yes.
Rosalyn Drexler
#23. Although I was as zealous in my anti-faith as Paul was in his belief I would be lying if I did not confess to a slight chink in my armour of nonbelief.
Geoff Dyer
#24. Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney Pollack
#25. One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#26. I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.
John Niven
#27. I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
Grant Morrison
#28. I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
James Russell Lowell
#29. I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.
Nimrat Kaur
#30. If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.
John Hagee
#31. Was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him - the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.
Aleksandar Hemon
#32. Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord ... I'm guilty.
Hunter S. Thompson
#33. I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.
Rod Stewart
#34. It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. I wanted to come clean many times. I wanted to admit my jealousy, to confess my sarcasm and endless anger, to put all my cards on the table and say the word. But no I'm not that kind, I love deeply; innocently but alone, and my unrequited love will haunt me, forever ...
Invisible Sam
#36. Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.
Lawrence Wright
#37. We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.
Anne Rice
#38. People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime.
Philipp Meyer
#39. I confess I've relived it so many times, I hardly remember it anymore. My feelings are strong enough to refract and distort the truth of that journey. But then ... my feelings are the truth of that journey
Ann Brashares
#40. I still have hope that I won't have to confess it all, but he must have gone through angel interrogation school because he gets it all out of me.
Susan Ee
#41. My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North
#42. Yet when it happens to me that the music moves me more than the subject of the song, I confess myself to commit a sin deserving punishment, and then I would prefer not to have heard the singer.
Augustine Of Hippo
#43. Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
Seneca The Younger
#44. Lord, show me anything in me that is not right in Your eyes so I can confess it before You, because I choose to live Your way. P
Stormie O'martian
#45. I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
Prince Philip
#47. I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#49. Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!
John R. Rice
#50. Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.
Saint Francis De Sales
#51. I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.
Christine McVie
#52. [H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess.
Thomm Quackenbush
#53. I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
Carol Loomis
#54. In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion ... love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.
Lady Gaga
#55. The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?
Ted Hughes
#56. In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#57. There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
Epictetus
#58. Fear,confess,business,limited knowledge makes religion
Er.teji
#60. We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
Jean De La Bruyere
#61. It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#62. You're a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.
Coco J. Ginger
#63. The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
William James
#64. To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
Augustine Of Hippo
#65. The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.
David Wilkerson
#66. I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
Albert Camus
#67. It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
Ben Shahn
#68. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#69. I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.
Jens Spahn
#70. I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
Mark Helprin
#71. Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
Ayn Rand
#72. One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#73. I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
#74. She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness ...
Ayn Rand
#75. Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.
Jill Scott
#76. In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
Charles Dickens
#77. Nothing that you confess ... can make me love you any less.
Anonymous
#78. My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)
Alton Brown
#79. Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
#80. When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.
Albert Einstein
#81. I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.
Bess Truman
#82. I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
Sylvester Stallone
#83. I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.
Matthew Lewis
#84. I choose goodness ... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
Max Lucado
#85. I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
Jim Capaldi
#86. No person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.
R.K. Harrison
#87. Never confess, my friend," he advised drowsily, clasping Melik's hand. "If you confess, they will keep you there forever.
John Le Carre
#88. There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
#89. I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?
Stephen Colbert
#90. There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#91. Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
Nancy B. Brewer
#92. I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.
Terry Pratchett
#93. He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn't like him very much.
John Saul
#94. Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
#95. D stared out the window, shoving down the feeling that it might be real nice to sit here and tell Jack Francisco everything about himself, confess things he'd never told nobody, just to feel like somebody cared, and to keep those big blue eyes fixed on him for as long as he could.
Jane Seville
#96. It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.
Paul Auster
#97. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
Barack Obama
#98. A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went ... it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.
Jude Morgan
#100. Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.
Johnny Hunt
