Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

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
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.… — Saint John Chrysostom
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much… — Marie Antoinette
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards. — Unknown Author
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how,… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love… — Diana Butler Bass
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .… — Abraham Lincoln
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some… — Fernando Pessoa
The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think… — Tori Amos
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession… — Martin Luther
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as… — Charles P. Kindleberger
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
If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today? What confessions would… — Dallin H. Oaks
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was… — Rudolf Hess

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