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A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.

Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

confession ran in the family.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

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.

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

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

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 Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

every smart / Is eased in telling.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

... 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I own the soft impeachment.

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

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.