Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very… — Unknown Author
A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person… — Paul Washer
On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good… — Kevin DeYoung
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged… — Michiko Kakutani
Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles. — John Wycliffe
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a… — Vincent Canby
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent… — Pope Francis
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't… — Chuck Smith
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety… — Aldrich Ames
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in… — Paul David Tripp
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the… — Lactantius
The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary.… — Thomas Cahill
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears,… — Sydney J. Harris
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. — George Weinberg
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by… — William Hazlitt
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example,… — Jerry Bridges
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the… — Walter Pater
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most… — Aidan Chambers
Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of… — Kenneth E. Hagin
...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the… — Pope Clement XIII

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