Doe Quote by Seneca the Younger

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

— Seneca the Younger

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

— Johnny Hunt

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the…

— Frederick Buechner

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

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

— Marguerite de Navarre

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can…

— Seneca the Younger

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

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation…

— T. S. Eliot

The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always…

— Peter Julian Eymard

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

— 1 John 1:9

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it…

— Douglas Wilson

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

— Bernard of Clairvaux