Quotes About Confession

But what about the secret I bear? I asked. Tell it to the world, he advised. And that is what I am doing.

no le había quedado más remedio que hacerse una confesión: aún temblaba al ver pasar a Mouret, pero ahora sabía que no era de miedo.

Cómo hacerla callar? ¿Cómo decirle a Denise que la adoraba, que ahora sólo existía ella?, que le sacrificaba todos sus antiguos amoríos de un día?

My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Jim purchased a brand-new book called How to Fix Damn Near Anything. In horror I discovered a $15.95 price tag on the inside of the jacket. Upon interrogation he confessed that he purchased it at the thrift shop for $.25.

That's where they'd gone right after the train station, where Malcolm (Malcolm!) had poured his bloody heart out and begged Owen not to leave. Bed. There would be time to hammer out the details later

He's awesome," Alejandro confessed, looking at her. "Your little brother is beautiful and amazing and perfect and way too young and innocent for the things I want to do to him." Alejandro put his face back into

Easier than blood," he said softly, and my breath caught, because we both knew I had blood on my hands, and I suspected he had a little of his own. "Yeah, but don't no one but us know that.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

I am a degenerate, and I know that.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

I don't know how to make tea.

And what are your sins?" the voice demanded. "Confess what you've done." That was harder, but I still managed the words. If it got me closer to Adrian and freedom, I could say anything. I took a deep breath and said: "I fell in love with a vampire.

Aunque para la mayoría de nosotros esta posibilidad parece remota, puede ser más real de lo que creemos. La idea de que no se puede persuadir a ninguna persona inocente a confesar un crimen, en especial uno de gravedad, es errónea. Y, de hecho, ocurre con una frecuencia perturbadora.

Jesus has entrusted to his Church the means to apply this victory—the weapons, if you will, to win the spiritual war. These are the sacraments (especially the Eucharist and confession), the Bible, personal prayer, the rosary, etc. One of the tragedies of our time is that so many Catholics have dropped those weapons

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?