Best 314 quotes in «confession quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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 own the soft impeachment.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

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.

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

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

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

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

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

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.