Confession Quotes
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.
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.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession.
In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?
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 art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
