Confession Quote by Phillip Lopate Download Open image “Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.” — Phillip Lopate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confession Narrators Trustworthy
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.” — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
If You Love Someone, Be Brave Enough To Tell Them., Otherwise Be Brave Enough To Watch Them To Be Loved By Someone Else. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Boys say its great..boys say its fine... 9 months later boys say its not mine..! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers.… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.” — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts.… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share Image
You said, I love you. I said it too. The only difference is, I didn't lie to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
