Life Quote by Ruth Haley Barton

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

— Anne Marie Miller

“Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.”

— Trevanian

“The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life.” “How?” “Through sacrifice and obedience.”

— Jan Karon

“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When people walk in honesty about their fears, shortcomings, and needs—not in thoughtless disobedience but in grace-based freedom and forgiveness—they reveal a deep understanding…

— Matt Chandler

“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see…

— Richard J. Foster

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have…

— Johnny Hunt

“[...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Confession is good for the soul, it empties the soul making more space for sin.”

— Trevanian

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

“I never expect, until I get to heaven, to be able to cease confessing sin every day and every time I stand before God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“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