To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it. 'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.” — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
“Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...” — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
No one's afraid to confess about how they feel and try again. We're all just afraid of knowing the responses and getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.… — Meicee29 Copy Share Image
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Now turn to Matthew, tenth chapter, thirty-second verse: “Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before my… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“That girl is my seasoned infatuation, God's greatest creation, She has the power to put my body in the physical depression; She… — Literary terrorist/Neil Copy Share Image
The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
There's so many things I want to tell you that are in my head. But when you're near me, nothing ever comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the… — Amruta Patil Copy Share Image
I'm falling so hard for you, you would never understand. I'm falling so fast, and so hard, I feel like I'm going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The old Confession was written by men who knew what it felt like to have done bad things: “We do earnestly repent,… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
“The dividing line will run right through the confessing Church. Even if we make the confession of faith, it gives us no… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Something in me hates this confession. I do not think that I am alone in this. Twitter, Facebook, virtual conferencing—these allow us… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise,… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
