Best 314 quotes in «confession quotes» category

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

every smart / Is eased in telling.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.

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

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

I own the soft impeachment.

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

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.

Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.