Quote by Karin Fossum

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It…

— Maria Monk

“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins…

— Morley Callaghan

“I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be…

— Karen Essex

“Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.”

— Tom Stoppard

“General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.”

— Gail Godwin

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

— Jarod Kintz

“in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.”

— Ben Mezrich

“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason. Try again.’…

— George Orwell

“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“However, I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.”

— Shane Kuhn

“An attempt is made to get him to admit his guilt. He feels innocent. To tell the truth, that is all he feels -…

— Albert Camus

“In confession occurs the break-through to the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer