Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Confession was the emotional equivalent to puking, Riley supposed. Something bad went down, bits of it came back up, you felt better.” — J. Fally Copy Share Image
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to… — Jake Adelstein Copy Share Image
This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the… — Amruta Patil Copy Share Image
I'm falling so hard for you, you would never understand. I'm falling so fast, and so hard, I feel like I'm going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's so many things I want to tell you that are in my head. But when you're near me, nothing ever comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“THE CONFESSION OF AN INTERIOR MAN, LEADING TO HUMILITY Turning my gaze at myself and attentively observing the course of my interior… — Helen Bacovcin 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
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen 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
“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“However, I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one’s worship… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The hardest part of loving is to admit that you have fallen in love with someone who can't be yours. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each new day is another chance to tell the one in your dreams that you love them. Each day that goes by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked by things too wonderful for… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
I scream your name, but it's too late...I'm on my way up the pearly stairway to heaven. I slowly open my eyes… — Patience Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“I never expect, until I get to heaven, to be able to cease confessing sin every day and every time I stand… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in… — Brother Roger Copy Share Image
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image