Best 314 quotes in «confession quotes» category

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].

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

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.

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

I own the soft impeachment.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

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.

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.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

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

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.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

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

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

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

The confession of one man humbles all.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.