Quotes About Confession

#1. Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

Lactantius

#2. Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.

F. F. Bosworth

#3. Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Diana Butler Bass

#4. The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Karl Marx

#5. Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

Peter Sagal

#6. Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer

#7. Dear Diary:
I have a confession to make: I've become a total idiot over French pastries.
They're my new favorite food.
My new-found edible souvenir.
My new favorite sin.
Dunkin Donuts is so yesterday.

Kimberley Montpetit

#8. My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing

Bret Easton Ellis

#9. When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness - and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Sydney J. Harris

#10. People would make a much fuller confession to Satan than to God.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness.
Now that is what you call a true confession!

Saurabh Sharma

#12. Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx

#13. General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

Gail Godwin

#14. Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin.

Patti Smith

#15. Then I wanted to beg him to forgive me. But this would have been too great a confession; any yielding at that moment would have locked me forever in that room with him. And in a way this was exactly what I wanted.

James Baldwin

#16. He wanted to tell her that all at once he fell madly in love with everything about her, the way she kissed, the taste of her lips, her voice, her smell, her nearness ... but such a premature confession at this point could make her suspicious of his intelligence. From The Cartesian Machine

Nick Tran

#17. No longer could he deny what he wanted. Perhaps it was her confession. Maybe it was because he hadn't taken to the skies in weeks. Whatever it was, all he knew was that he had to have her or go up in flames. "Then seduce me." - Kiril

Donna Grant

#18. Confession Who knows more of Wanda, the wan, than I do? And who knows more of Terry, the torn, than I do? And who knows more than I do of Ziggy, the Zap, fleeing the rap, using his eyes and teeth to spring the trap, than I do! Or did. Good Lord, forbid that morning's acre, held in the palm

James Baldwin

#19. A confession: I am not a good friend.

Victoria Schwab

#20. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.

Pawan Mishra

#21. If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#22. 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

#23. You think about me ever?" Ben's eyes were intent on Maddox. All the time. Even when I knew I shouldn't. The confession died in his throat, but maybe Ben could see it in his eyes because Ben gave a sly smile. "I've thought about you." "Yeah?" Maddox's voice was hoarse, eyes riveted to Ben's. "Sucking

Annabeth Albert

#24. Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.

Rudyard Kipling

#25. Confession was the emotional equivalent to puking, Riley supposed. Something bad went down, bits of it came back up, you felt better.

J. Fally

#26. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#27. Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.

Stephen King

#28. Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Thomas Otway

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

R.C. Sproul

#30. I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Kenneth Tynan

#31. Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.

Stephen King

#32. It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Charles Spurgeon

#33. Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#34. When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Paul David Tripp

#35. 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

#36. On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy.

Kevin DeYoung

#37. confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words." "It was a very disappointing

Oscar Wilde

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

Linda Kage

#39. CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period ... literally.

Ronda Thompson

#40. A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release.

Thomas C. Oden

#41. Elizabeth just made her confession of faith, and Jesus wasn't even born yet.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#42. Confession and ordinary counselling can satisfactorily help to resolve most of the issues that confront people on a daily basis. Some

Lazar Puhalo

#43. Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During

John Steinbeck

#44. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

Adolf Hitler

#45. Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn't been forced to take one after half a night's sleep.

Sabrina Jeffries

#46. From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Michel De Montaigne

#47. Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.

Diana Gabaldon

#48. For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Charles Spurgeon

#49. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#50. 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

#51. The public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important.

Leo Tolstoy

#52. Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Jonathan Edwards

#53. I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

Edward Gibbon

#54. I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

Maggie Stiefvater

#55. A novel is a long confession in which you expose your heartaches, complain about all the things that are wrong in the world, then try to put those things right for the sake of the reader, as well as your own well being.

Chloe Thurlow

#56. Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence.

E.W. Hornung

#57. ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.

L.M. Montgomery

#58. The poem is a confession of faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger with your life, your car keys, your best-guarded secret.

Amruta Patil

#60. The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Sean Brady

#61. As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

James Nesbitt

#62. The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Morley Callaghan

#63. 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

#64. The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Albert Camus

#65. It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.

George MacDonald

#66. Confession is a kind of pride.

Francis Balfour-Browne

#67. I have a confession."
"Oh?"
"I can't get you off my mind."
His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the nape of her neck. He was saying too much. ~Thomas to Chelise

Ted Dekker

#68. Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

Pete Hamill

#69. Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Leonard Cohen

#70. Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Anatole France

#71. ...confession means saying that somewhere in the mix was a choice, and the choice was made by us, and it does not need to be excused, explained, or even understood. The choice needs to be forgiven.

John Ortberg

#72. Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

P. M. Forni

#73. If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

Walter Brueggemann

#74. 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

#75. Telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution ...

John Geddes

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

Pope Benedict XVI

#77. A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

Martha Beck

#78. 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

#79. If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

George Weinberg

#80. What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that?"
"On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#81. I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Patricia Wentworth

#82. He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

#83. Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.

Al Alvarez

#84. After he told them we were dating, which came out more like a Cultural Revolution confession than a family heart-to-heart, his father said flatly, "You can be friends with a foreign woman, but not date her.

Jocelyn Eikenburg

#85. The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.

B. J. Daniels

#86. Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

Pope Francis

#87. Medieval justice was scrupulous about holding proper trials and careful not to sentence without proof of guilt, but it achieved proof by confession rather than evidence, and confession was routinely obtained by torture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#88. Bad girls are my favorites. They make confession more interesting and fun.

Nancee Cain

#89. And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton.

Henry James

#90. I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

Ellen Hopkins

#91. 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

#92. Just being visible is my biggest confession, so they try to set me at ease by revealing our equality, by dragging out their own less-apparent deformities.

Katherine Dunn

#93. Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

Alessandra Torre

#94. But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#95. With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#96. The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Immanuel Kant

#97. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

Michiko Kakutani

#98. I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

Paul Levine

#99. I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me.

Barbara Mujica

#100. Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth ... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson