Confession Quotes

435 quotes by 355 authors

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude… — Hannah Arendt
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given… — Saint Basil
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. — Josh Billings
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done… — Giacomo Casanova
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest… — Shane Claiborne
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and… — Thomas Aquinas
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Confession without repentance is just bragging. — Herbert Eugene Bolton
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the… — C.S. Lewis
Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him… — Arthur W. Pink
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that… — Teresa of Avila
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — Albert Camus
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the… — Ravi Zacharias

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