Confession Quote by Thomas Brooks

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving…

— Pope John Paul II

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

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

— Craig Ferguson

“The Council warns confessors not to " connive at sins and deal too indulgently with penitents by enjoining certain very light works for very…

— Joseph Pohle

“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 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

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

— Marguerite de Navarre

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

— Connie Nielsen

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'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is…

— Kiese Laymon