Once you have surrendered completely to God, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of… — Ashok Kushwaha Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give… — Father Damien Copy Share Image
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“If Catholicism harbors the promise of redemption from its very beginning, found in confession and remorse, then Lutheranism stands clearly and starkly… — Ilit Ferber Copy Share Image
That is what has been said in the media and at the trial. To this day nobody has produced one. There is… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“The call to find the way again by seeking out God in the confession of sins is always at the eleventh hour.… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“Mike Romano slipped into the confessional. The screen behind the lattice grill slid open. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “For… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Confession confession !! I'm honored in saying I get the best luv of my life she's my light dat shines up daily… — Cendie Copy Share Image
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
I can't find the words to tell you what I'd like to say, I can't describe this feeling that gets stronger everyday,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
And to be honest, I love you, and I hope you feel the same way. It really hurts me that this could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
“Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I seldom fling children from… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered." He stared at… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife.… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ.… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Telling someone you love them doesn't necessarily mean you can expect an I LOVE YOU TOO! in return sometimes you just have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image