Confessions Quotes

70 Confessions quotes by 63 unique authors

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude… — Hannah Arendt
That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained… — Unknown Author
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' — Benedict Joseph Labre
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. — Charles Simmons
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel… — Regina Spektor
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls...From what… — Megan Fox
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the… — Christine Schutt
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about… — Joseph Brodsky
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much… — Marie Antoinette
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .… — Abraham Lincoln
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us. — Russell M. Nelson
If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today? What confessions would… — Dallin H. Oaks
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
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
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
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
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
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
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand… — Emile Zola
I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers… — Pope Francis
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea… — Father Damien
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
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
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

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