Confession Quotes

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.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

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

Faith never makes a confession.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

The confession of one man humbles all.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

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

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

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.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

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.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

All confessions are Odysseys.

I own the soft impeachment.

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.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

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

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.