Confession Quote by Douglas Wilson

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

“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

“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

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

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have…

— Johnny Hunt

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always…

— Peter Julian Eymard

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation…

— T. S. Eliot

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

— Marguerite de Navarre

“Sin can’t be forgiven because it is not an act; you can only be forgiven for the sins you commit, not for a heredity.…

— Oswald Chambers

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the…

— Frederick Buechner

“it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.”

— Martin Luther