Quote by David Silverman

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

“I went to the priest for confession, but he didn’t do it.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I understood why Catholics confess,even though they must know priests share the same sins, or worse.It does not matter who was listening; what mattered…

— Paulo Coelho

“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.”

— Amit Kalantri

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

“Do you actually hear confessions in your church, Father, actual spoken confessions? For that matter, does any priest anymore, at least as the movies…

— DeSales Harrison

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the…

— Monica Furlong

“Our Lord Jesus Christ is a wise and just lawgiver who must demand that the power of for giving or retaining sins be exercised…

— Joseph Pohle

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is…

— Oscar Wilde

“I have come upon the conviction that it is not the stern voice of a priest delivering the threat of brimstone, but the gentle…

— Hannah Kent

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

— Henri Frederic Amiel