Comfortable Quote by Kiese Laymon

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

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

“Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t…

— Jake Adelstein

“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 of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

— Colleen Hoover

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

— Craig Ferguson

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

— Lino Rulli

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

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

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic…

— Cate Marvin

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

— Henri Rousseau