Best 314 quotes in «confession quotes» category

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

... 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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

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

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

...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.

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.

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.

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

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

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.

After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God!

A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his own. A community is what Saint Paul told us - our differences granted respect by one another, but those differences are not allowed to turn us into loners. You must know when to find your own, quiet moment of solitude. But you must know when to open the door to go with others, and you must know how to open the door. There's not point in opening the door with bitterness and resentment in your heart.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

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.

According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive "dispositions" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.