Appeals Quote by Alison Bechdel

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response…

— George Eliot

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.

— Tim Donaghy

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the…

— Regina Brett

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do…

— John Climacus

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

— John Densmore

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the…

— Monica Furlong

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches…

— Donald Wuerl

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

— Pope Francis

When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I…

— Fidel Castro

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

— Bernard of Clairvaux