The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — George Eliot 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
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
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
“To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty -… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to shroud its tearful ache. So… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Our Lord Jesus Christ is a wise and just lawgiver who must demand that the power of for giving or retaining sins… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Anybody who lives beneath the Cross and who has discerned in the Cross of Jesus the utter wickedness of all men and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Too many times I hesitate to say what's in my heart, because I have so much to say and I don't know… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
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
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so… — Shane Claiborne 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
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
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
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ.… — Billy Sunday 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
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
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
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough… — P. M. Forni 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
'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
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas 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
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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
“Mike Romano slipped into the confessional. The screen behind the lattice grill slid open. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “For… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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