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Quotes About Confession

The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.
~ Anonymous
If you mess up, 'fess up.
~ Anonymous
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault].
~ Anonymous
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
~ Anonymous
"Who killed Cock Robin?""I," said the sparrow,"With my bow and arrow,I killed Cock Robin."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
A Poesia é a confissão sincera do pensamento mais íntimo de uma idade
~ Antero de Quental
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
~ Germaine Greer
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!
~ Mark Salling
My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
~ Aileen Wuornos
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
~ Donna Rice
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
~ Charlaine Harris
She had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the work "we" - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
~ Ford Madox Ford
And she knew too: she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it; her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It's not just that I'm a horny seventeen year old male and she's a beautiful girl, although I don't necessarily expect you to believe me.
~ Francine Pascal
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16
~ Francine Rivers
For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
~ Francine Rivers
Membertou first was catechised, confessed his sins, and renounced the Devil, whom we are told he had faithfully served during a hundred and ten years.
~ Francis Parkman
And what's a-trouble to you, Jackie? Father, I said, feeling I might as well get it over while I had him in good humour, I had it all arranged to kill my grandmother. He seemed a bit shaken by that, all right, because he said nothing for quite a while. My goodness, he said at last, that'd be a shocking thing to do. What put that into your head? Father, I said, feeling very sorry for myself, she's an awful woman.
~ Frank O'Connor
Until the day my father died, he couldn't let go of a wrong in his life until he made it right—first with God and then with others. I learned from my father that unconfessed sin in believers' hearts hinders their walk, their talk, and their service to God. But when it is settled with God, He restores joy and fellowship.
~ Franklin Graham
You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
~ Franz Kafka
Take my warning to heart instead, and don't be so unyielding in future, you can't fight against this court, you must confess to guilt. Make your confession at the first chance you get. Until you do that, there is no possibility of getting out of their clutches, none at all.
~ Franz Kafka
No hay defensa posible contra esta judicatura, ha que confesar. Haga la confesión en la próxima oportunidad que se le presente. Solo así tendrá la posibilidad de escapar
~ Franz Kafka
There's no way at all that you can defend yourself against this Court, you have to admit your guilt. Make a full confession as soon as you can
~ Franz Kafka