Confession Quote by Oscar Wilde

“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

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Oscar Wilde

“He understood what the priest could not. That what we seek is the worthy adversary. For we strike out to fall flailing through demons…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The old Confession was written by men who knew what it felt like to have done bad things: “We do earnestly repent, and are…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

“Much later that night, as he meditated in forgiveness of the day, he wondered at himself. Had not he laughed at cruelty, had not…

— Robin Hobb

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

— Jarod Kintz

“It is the especial duty of all churches, and of all believers, to search diligently into what God finds fault with, in his word,…

— John Owen

“Parents should not take all the blame for this,” interjected the Bishop. “We are guilty, too, priests and religious. We have been too concerned…

— Katharine Galgano

“The priest must preach the pure words of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita