Confession Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

Faith never makes a confession.

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.

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

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.

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.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

My whole act is confession.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

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

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

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.