Confession Quote by Pope John Paul II

Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're…

— David Jeremiah

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 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 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

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

— Craig Ferguson

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

— Pope Francis

“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 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

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

— J. M. Coetzee

Confession is a kind of pride.

— Francis Balfour-Browne

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