If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
If you're waiting for me, then I'll come to you. If you finally pronounce your love for me, I'll return to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to… — Philip Roth 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
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
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a person puts his heart on the line and confessed, at most you should have said yes or no so I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Answer me this one question. pleaes dont be so quick in your response. hypothetically, I inquire. dont look at me in anger… — Ne-yo Copy Share Image
“I was going to make a confession. Then I remembered I don't make them very well. We still need to see the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“At the heart of God is the desire to give and to forgive. Because of this, he set into motion the entire… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
''You're wrong to think we have nothing in common.We have something big in common.WE have love'' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will… — Proverbs 27:13 Copy Share Image
“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The naive ambition when unexpressed, is like a confession regressed, as of a Failure in 'Failure Thwarting' awaiting success to come out… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
