Allegory Quote by Craig Ferguson Download Open image “Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.” — Craig Ferguson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Confession Exaggeration Lying Rite Sacred Spirituality
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God’s goodness. “What I did was bad,” we acknowledge, “but your… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Confession is the God-given remedy for self-deception and self-indulgence. When we confess our sins before a brother-Christian, we are mortifying the pride of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Honest confession is an externalizing of an inward conversation for the purpose of gaining insight, releasing a burden, or admitting reality. Confession leads to… — Jocelyn Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Sober alkies are often asked: "When did you hit rock bottom?" but a more informed question might be: "How many times did you hit… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van? — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
People spend thousands of dollars trying to keep their teeth straight. I just hope we can live in a world where we accept gay… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
