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Quotes About Confess

Strong as that repugnance became, I had an even stronger feeling that we were embarking on an important enterprise far too much upon the spur of the moment. The latter qualm I had the temerity to confess to Raffles; nor have I often loved him more than when he freely admitted it to be the most natural feeling in the world.
~ E.W. Hornung
Internet users are flocking to the Vatican's new website (so they say). It turns out though, that most visitors are there to confess after visiting the Cindy Crawford site. Now, the faithful don't have to kiss the Pope's ring — you just double click on it.
~ Anonymous
There is a matter on my conscience which I cannot excuse but may as well confess. To deceive a maiden is a very sore thing, so sore that it had made us all hot against Constantine; but it may be doubted by a cool mind whether it is worse, nay, whether it is not more venial than to contrive the murder of a lawful wife. Poets have paid more attention to the first offence – maybe they know more about it – the law finds greater employment, on the whole, in respect to the second.
~ Anthony Hope
My lord, to accept God's grace is to live with hope. If you but confess your sins and believe, the Lord will forgive you. Ask and he will come to dwell in your heart, and you will have the peace you crave. You only have to believe.
~ Francine Rivers
The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess.
~ John Calvin
The heart of post-millennialism is the faith that Christ will through His people accomplish and put into force the glorious prophecies of Isaiah and all the Scriptures, that He shall overcome all His enemies through His covenant people, and that He shall exercise His power and Kingdom in all the world and over all men and nations, so that, whether in faith or in defeat, every knee shall bow to Him and every tongue shall confess God (Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:11).
~ Rousas John Rushdoony
We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.
~ Anne Rice
Every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4:3)
~ John Hagee
acknowledges that Napoleon stands fully justified in making that peace. I cannot expect so much justice in an Englishman. He would rather bury his past mistake in a present mistake than simply confess it.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ronald Coase cynically observed that, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
~ Gary Smith
I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.
~ Tony Bradman
My fame had become annoying for my enemies, and a little trying, I confess, for my friends.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I confess that I covet your skull.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves.
~ John Piper
If one thinks like the Jihadists, one understands their actions, past, present, and future, from the belief that Muhammad has demanded: "I command by Allah to go fight all the people of the world until they confess there is no God but Allah, and I am his messenger…" (From the Hadith, recorded by Sahih Al-Bukhari, Islam and Terrorism, Dr. Gabriel).
~ John Price
I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
~ Erik Larson
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
~ Don King
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
~ Ayn Rand
that is the psychology of a murderer who's committed the perfect crime and then confesses because he can't bear the idea that nobody knows it's a perfect crime.
~ Ayn Rand
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie—unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him—perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol—and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.
~ Beth Moore