Quotes About Confession

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

They were all sufferers in their despicable pain, every one of them, and what right did he have to laugh at the woman whose husband was pouring his heart out to him, a man in sincere confession to a fellowman?

He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country.

On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet". -- The Eichmann Trial, page 44

Maybe you should say something to her, man. Like what? You know what. Like, 'Gosh, best buddy, I've fallen in love with you, and I know you don't feel the same way, but will you put your life on hold for me until my tour's up?' Something like that, you mean? You might want to soften it up a little, but yeah.

My desire to tell is stronger than my shame to deny.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!

In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

What happened was, I told you I loved you.

Me?' I laughed. 'I'm guilty.

Shut up. I'm drunk and I'm trying to confess, so just let me do it, okay?

I didn't admit it to Liz and Chloe,but I remembered exactly what I'd been thinking when I took this quiz in seventh grade.I'd been hoping I wouldn't go to hell for telling the little white lies I was telling.I would have been mortified to say so, but when I'd picked Barry Yates or Mark Jones or any boy for the rest of the quiz,i'd always meant Nick.

She wanted to tell him, to have it out in the open. But that wasn't true—she dreaded telling him. What she wanted was already to have told him.

Did Jameson tell you that I killed her?

I know that Jamie loves you." Grayson looked at me the way you look at art in a glass case, like he wanted to reach out to touch me but couldn't. "And I've seen the way that you look at him, the way the two of you are together. You're in love with my brother, Avery." He paused. "Tell me you're not

I'll give you something else to think about. Not very long ago he shot and killed a man and did it deliberately, at close range. What I'm saying is he intended to kill the guy and he did. Again the silence before Chip said, Come on, he told you that? I felt it in his hand, Dawn said. The one that held the gun.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.