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Confession Quotes

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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.
Kenneth E. Hagin

Our declaration will either confine us or liberate us. Our declaration is the consequence of our faith, and our faith is the result of our accurate or inaccurate thought process.
Authors on Confession Quotes: Pope Francis Mahatma Gandhi Friedrich Nietzsche Colleen Hoover Albert Camus Rudolf Hess Lucie Brock-Broido William Sargant Jean-Paul Sartre Craig Ferguson James A. Baldwin Ira Levin Simone de Beauvoir Monica Furlong Antonio Porchia Henry David Thoreau Charles M. Blow Zach Anner Ralph Waldo Emerson Martin Luther Alison Bechdel Georgiana Goddard King Ryan Stiles Ludwig Wittgenstein William Shakespeare John Hay Beith Billy Graham George Eliot Robert Creeley Mary Antin Arthur W. Pink Norman Lock Charles Simmons
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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.
Rudolf Hess

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

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Do not spread the compost on the weeds.
William Shakespeare

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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.
F. F. Bosworth

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

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My whole act is confession.
Shelley Berman

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

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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
Bernard of Clairvaux

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Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God!
T. B. Joshua

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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

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

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The act of love is a confession.
Albert Camus

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

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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
Anne Sexton

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No confession brings perfection.
Oscar Romero

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In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.
Joseph Brodsky

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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.
Walter Benjamin

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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

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A confession has to be part of your new life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
Max Lucado

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Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.
Patrick Madrid

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All art is a kind of confession.
James A. Baldwin

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

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God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
Martin Luther

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

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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel

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

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

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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Germaine Greer

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Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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Do not be afraid of confession!
Pope Francis

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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

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Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
Richard Sibbes

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I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard
Marilyn Manson

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Confession without repentance is just bragging.
Herbert Eugene Bolton

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

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

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

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A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

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Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
Arthur W. Pink

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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Anatole France

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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.
Monica Furlong

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

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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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I own the soft impeachment.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.
Lena Dunham