Quotes and Sayings About Confession
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
-- Andrew Soutar -
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
-- Bill Vaughan -
My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
-- Bruce Feiler -
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
-- C.D. Payne -
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
-- Charles M. Blow -
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
-- Charles Simmons -
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
-- Dominic Savio -
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.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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.
-- Ernst Thalmann -
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
-- Francis Xavier -
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
... 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.
-- George Eliot -
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
-- George Weinberg -
The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.
-- Georgia Harkness -
every smart / Is eased in telling.
-- Georgiana Goddard King -
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
-- Gerald Brenan -
Confession without repentance is just bragging.
-- Herbert Eugene Bolton -
The United States has a system of taxation by confession
-- Hugo Black -
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.
-- Ira Levin -
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
-- Italo Svevo -
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
-- John Hay Beith