Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure. — Unknown Author
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the… — Paul Tournier
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight… — Felix Dzerzhinsky
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who… — Ernst Thalmann
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner… — F. F. Bosworth
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded.… — Jack Donovan
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and… — Peter Ho Davies
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting… — Peter Greenaway
Do not be afraid of confession! — Pope Francis
A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion. — Pope Francis
Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day!… — Pope Francis
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we… — Pope Benedict XVI
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of… — Jack Kerouac
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we… — John D. Caputo
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. — Socrates
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. — Horatio Alger
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… — Samuel Johnson
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession… — Ernestine Rose
Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a… — Pope Clement XIII
All philosophy is a form of confession. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession. — Billy Graham

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