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
In my church body, there is a ton of standing, sitting, and kneeling during worship. We're always on the move, kneeling for… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at… — Ronald J. Sider 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
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Woke up this morning find my self praying realizing I have drifted so far from you Lord, been turning into a person… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
God is near at hand when you do approach Him in prayer. Oh, comforting truth! A God at hand to hear the… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that although they have a respectable sales pitch, this business of a priest having the power to let… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
Confession: I cut my nails short,So I cant scratch my face. Another Confession: I wear makeup to cover up those scars on… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
“The faith that joins you to Christ and makes you right with God is a faith that works itself out in love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“. . . I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I can guarantee that there will be tough times, and I guarantee that one, or both of us will want out. But… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned,… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
“He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“God will help us - said the holy man. - But first let us understand the reason for these pains. I suggest… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Ive got another confession I fell to temptation And there is no question There was some connection Ive got to follow my… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.' What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it. 'I want what I want and… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation?… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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