Confessing Quotes

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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be… — Teresa of Avila
All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be… — Alphonsus Liguori
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in… — Saint Augustine
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather… — Max Lucado
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. — Fanny Burney
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of… — Russell Baker
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive… — Ignatius of Antioch
The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the church, and the… — Paul Washer
I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years. — Joel Osteen
The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing. — Lewis Sperry Chafer
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied… — Paul David Tripp
People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake… — Leah Hager Cohen
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 things… — Jon Foreman
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,… — Ambrose Bierce

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