Confessional Quotes

41 quotes by 37 authors

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it… — Zooey Deschanel
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through… — Max Lucado
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. — Yoko Ono
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I… — Jeanette Winterson
Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in.… — Rachel Caine
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business. — Anne Lamott
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon
They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the… — Ellis Peters
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair… — D. A. Carson
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which… — Clive Barker
Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But… — Diana Gabaldon
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is… — Lemn Sissay
I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address… — D. A. Carson
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many… — Kevin DeYoung
Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin… — Julian Assange
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that… — Pierce Brosnan
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. — Louise Bourgeois
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am… — Per Petterson

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