Confession Quotes

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

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

Faith never makes a confession.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

My whole act is confession.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Acting is a form of confession.

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

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