Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. — Gregory Maguire
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to… — Eugene H. Peterson
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. — Pope Francis
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. — Carl Jung
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God. — Billy Graham
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. — John Hay Beith
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin… — Aleksandar Hemon
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to… — Mark Lawson
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff. — John Maeda
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin
As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to… — Ambrose Bierce
Advice is always a confession. — Andre Maurois
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all… — Oscar Wilde
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till… — Oscar Wilde
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. — Publilius Syrus
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the… — Karl Marx
The confession of one man humbles all. — Antonio Porchia
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that… — Edmond Rostand
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… — Mary McCarthy

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