Quotes About Confession

he was a priest Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I had carried this awful thing around with me for a year, I had thought and thought and cried and worried myself sick over what would happen to my Paul, if not on earth, then after his death Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and then he, a priest, had taken it so Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not calmly, but, well, matter-of-factly.

O Sínodo de Dort em 1618 condenou Armínio como corruptor da fé, embora não tenha chegado ao patamar explícito da Assembleia de Westminster 30 anos depois. Essa última confissão é o marco do ápice do protestantismo. Nenhum outro credo é tão detalhado e tão fiel às Escrituras.

We must examine with care what are the virtues of which we stand most in need, what are those which are most difficult to win, the sins to which we most often fall, and the most frequent and inevitable occasions of our falling. We must turn to God in complete confidence in the hour of battle, abide strongly in the presence of his divine majesty, worship him humbly, and set before him our woes and our weaknesses. And thus we shall find in him all virtues though we may lack them all.3

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

I suppose the confessional teaches a man to recognize hate.

If I believed in any God at all, I should still hate the idea of confession. Kneeling in one of your boxes. Exposing myself to another man. You must excuse me, Father, but to me it seems morbid—unmanly even.

were there when I got home, I could blurt out the truth

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn't always set you free. Sometimes it's the very opposite.

But, Kristen, the blood," he says, "I don't know how the blood got there." He glances at me, then back at his drink. He looks like he might cry. "Honey, you cut your finger at work," I say, though unconvincingly.

To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation. We need to confess that we have sinned in the gravest fashion by frequently loving our version of truth and ethics more than people, and even God himself. For one cannot genuinely love God while refusing to love one's neighbor (1 John 4:20).

He wanted to tell me that he is in love with me. Why did I stop him? Am I so ashamed that it might be true?

I've been in love with you for a while, and I finally had to say it. It doesn't mean you have to do anything about it -- or me either, for that matter.

Bad cops are bad priests', she said. 'All confession, and no absolution.

And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

The UNLV championship game against Duke, I didn't shoot the last shot. Choked. It took 10 years for me to say that. I had to be in the NBA five, six years for me to say that aloud.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.