The First Confessor Quotes

#1. Please meet Magda Searus, the first Confessor.

Terry Goodkind

#2. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

Maximus The Confessor

#3. And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

John Pomfret

#4. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor ... Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#5. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

Maximus The Confessor

#6. A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

Robert Creeley

#8. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#9. No, I've only ever done one film at a time.

Christopher Nolan