Confessing Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but… — Henri Nouwen
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when… — Pope Francis
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the… — John of Kronstadt
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a… — Meghan Daum
There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together — LeCrae
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur.… — David Sarnoff
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin… — Aleksandar Hemon
One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as… — Vance Havner
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing… — David Jeremiah
Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many… — Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. — Laurence J. Peter
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,… — Nick Hornby
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the… — Martin Luther
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The… — Brennan Manning
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden… — Brennan Manning
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose… — Gail Carson Levine
... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me,… — Margaret Atwood
When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistakeâ€•and if he is truly sorry about what he has… — Anton Szandor LaVey

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