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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I was baptized one foggy afternoon about four o'clock. I couldn't think of any names I particularly wanted, so I kept my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess… — Ferdinand de Lesseps 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it,… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier 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
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
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
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
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
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image