You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply… — William James Copy Share Image
A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession,… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work.… — Suzanne Farrell 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
I don't know what's going to happen from here on out but I do know is that I want to be with… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happened then. The Speaker agreed with her that she had made a mistake that night, and she knew when… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The second sign that the Samaritan woman had been saved was the change that occurred in her life. According to the Bible,… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Life for me had already lost much of its pulp; the edges were collapsing into the center, and in that gap was… — Margaux Fragoso Copy Share Image
God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave… — Kazantsakis Nikos Copy Share Image
Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been…” “Eight days,” Søren supplied. “Eight days since my last confession. Let’s see…… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears,… — Andrew of Crete Copy Share Image
“You’re just going to have your fiancé as your chaperone, and he isn’t allowed to touch. And you, Mrs. Gavarreen will remain… — Lindsay Delagair Copy Share Image
I told him that I don't like who he became. He changed so much. But it was a lie. He could change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
“Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well—annoy her half to death until, before she could stop… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Where was the love once we had? A questioned that breaks my heart The reason why even I tried so hard The… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity,… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big… — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
