Confession Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confession Excuse Forgiveness Ifs Pardon Shut up Sin Soul Your soul
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 Copy Share Image
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
“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 grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it.” If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great… — Max Lucado Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
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 them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
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 in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share
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. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance. Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we… — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Copy Share
You said, I love you. I said it too. The only difference is, I didn't lie to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image