Confession Quotes

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

I have a confession: I have no faith.

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

Advice is always a confession.

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

Confession is a kind of pride.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

... 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.

every smart / Is eased in telling.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.

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.

confession ran in the family.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.

I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.