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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You're My Inspiration Since the first day I met you, you've caught my attention and you were sick. Right away I wanted… — Auston Chavez 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
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron 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'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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“I have a confession." "Oh?" "I can't get you off my mind." His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the… — Ted Dekker 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
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
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
“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
“...as long as you imagine you are rich there is nothing to thank god for, and you cannot be aware of being… — Anthony Bloom 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
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
“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
“. . .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
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
“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
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
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