Confession Quotes

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.

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.

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

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

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.

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

My whole act is confession.

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

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

Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God!

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.

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

The act of love is a confession.

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

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

No confession brings perfection.

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.

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.

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

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

All art is a kind of confession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Acting is a form of confession.

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

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

Do not be afraid of confession!

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

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

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

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

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

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

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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

A work of art is a confession.

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.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

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.

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.

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.