Confession Quotes

My whole act is confession.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Acting is a form of confession.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Faith never makes a confession.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.