Quotes About Confession

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.

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

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

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. The function of a friend is to be a substitute for this defective self,

Yolkov's chest expanded for a deep sigh. He looked at Zhirov with weary eyes. "Okay. You won, Fyodor. You turn me on. You were right. We're not buddies. We should be lovers.

Can I say something? Before we go back to the party?' 'Go on.' 'I'm a little drunk.' 'Me too. That's okay.' 'Just … I missed you, you know.' 'I missed you too.' 'But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there—' 'Same here.' 'And I feel a little guilty, sort of running away like that.

A handsome woman with auburn hair cut short, wearing a silk blouse, cardigan, and wool pants, says that she is a doctor. Deeply sad, she admits that for more than a year she conducted surgeries while high on meth. She initially tried it at a party. "I felt better than I had ever felt before in my life," she says. "I felt as if I could do anything. I never ever wanted to lose that feeling.

At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.

Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.

In any case where there is no apparent suspect, the crime lab will produce no valuable evidence. In those cases where a suspect has already confessed and been identified by at least two eyewitnesses, the lab will give you print hits, fiber evidence, blood typings and a ballistic match.

Veronica." He had uttered my name a thousand times, but never before had it sounded like a prayer. "There are things I should tell you.

Whoever confesses his sins, shall obtain the mercy of God's grace.

A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

James directed that when the patient discusses his sickness with the elders and prayer is made, the possibility of sickness as the result of sin ought to be discussed. If sin is found in the background of the problem, it must be confessed.