Augustine Quote by Anatole France

“We will never make it under our own stem. Having made this connection, Augustine falls apart. What he describes at this point in the…

— Thomas Cahill

“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even…

— Aidan Chambers

“The old Confession was written by men who knew what it felt like to have done bad things: “We do earnestly repent, and are…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

“Do you actually hear confessions in your church, Father, actual spoken confessions? For that matter, does any priest anymore, at least as the movies…

— DeSales Harrison

“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.”

— Mel Starr

All confessions are Odysseys.

— Raymond Queneau

“The little sins are sometimes harder to confess than the big ones—but that's why it's so important to confess them.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with…

— Matthew Henry

“I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash…

— Hieromonk Damascene

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

— Thomas Brooks

“Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God’s goodness. “What I did was bad,” we acknowledge, “but your…

— Max Lucado

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar