Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
My whole act is confession. — Shelley Berman
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing… — Bill Bradley
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin. — Sam Rockwell
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story,… — Karrine Steffans
After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal… — Edmond Rostand
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I… — Maggie Stiefvater
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards. — Ryan Stiles
Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace… — Maximus the Confessor
All confessions are Odysseys. — Raymond Queneau
If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? — Sarah McLachlan
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. — Johann Gottfried Herder
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. — Louis Begley
The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed… — Adam Garcia
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he… — Maurice Blanchot
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New… — Rachel Gibson
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. — Bill James
In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion… — G. C. Berkouwer
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God. — G. C. Berkouwer
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. — Criss Jami
Confession is a kind of pride. — Francis Balfour-Browne
Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the… — Theophan the Recluse
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without… — John Climacus
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,… — Lord Byron

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