Art Quote by Michiko Kakutani

“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even…

— Aidan Chambers

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to…

— Tori Amos

“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

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches…

— Donald Wuerl

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where…

— Philip Yancey

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of…

— Walter Kirn

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people…

— Richard Ford

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

— Craig Ferguson

“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

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul…

— George Eliot

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word…

— Richard J. Foster

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

— Phillip Lopate