Able Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of…

— David Dark

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

— Russell M. Nelson

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

— Craig Ferguson

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms…

— Wole Soyinka

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

— Marguerite de Navarre

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is…

— PZ Myers

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

— Christopher Marlowe

I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do…

— Jon Foreman

“That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour,…

— Chuck Palahniuk