Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our… — Erwin W. Lutzer
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I… — Emile M. Cioran
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. — Roland Barthes
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
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. — Charles Simmons
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
The United States has a system of taxation by confession — Hugo Black
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen
The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed. — Paul Washer
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel… — Regina Spektor
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls...From what… — Megan Fox
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the… — Mercedes McCambridge
All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air. — Helen Hunt
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the… — Jorie Graham
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the… — Christine Schutt
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. — Charles M. Blow
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about… — Joseph Brodsky

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