Top 43 Confession Of Faith Quotes
#1. Without a confession of faith the church's evaluation of its ministers is haphazard and shallow at best; and the church will be in great danger of laying hands on novices and heretics, all because it does not measure candidates for the ministry by a broad and deep standard.
Samuel E. Waldron
#2. One must repeat one's confession of faith from time to time, actually state what one condones, what one condemns; for the opposing camp isn't silent either.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
Carl Jung
#4. The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!
Pope Clement XIII
#6. Elizabeth just made her confession of faith, and Jesus wasn't even born yet.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#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
#10. Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For ... faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.
Martin Luther
#11. The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.
Evan Osnos
#12. This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#13. One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because ... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
Brene Brown
#14. The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
Dalai Lama
#15. Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson
#16. Salvation is based on heart belief and mouth confession; it's not just saying words without heart faith.
Paul Silway
#17. A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#18. An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Thomas Brooks
#19. I have a confession: I have no faith.
Zach Anner
#20. One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.
Melanne Verveer
#22. In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.
Robert Mundell
#23. Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith. But he figured it must be high up the ladder of mortal sins, ones that required serious contrition and confession to a priest. Bondurant
John Heubusch
#24. An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.
Humphrey Lyttelton
#25. It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism.
J. Cammenga
#26. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde
#29. Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.
John Green
#30. The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
Paul David Tripp
#31. A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
Randall Munroe
#32. Remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.
(Book-Love Vs Destiny)
Atul Purohit
#33. When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.
Emma Rose Kraus
#34. No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.
Peter Kreeft
#35. It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.
Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI
Alfred E. Smith
#36. Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.
Herbert A. Simon
#37. Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12
Beth Moore
#38. The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close to Him.
Lauren F. Winner
#40. Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
#41. The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Josh Billings
#42. Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.
Donald Wuerl
