Quotes About Confession

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they'd only just confessed!

think the mistake I made was in not admitting from the start that I loved you, not her. And I won't—" His confession came out so casually, more an explanation

Despite the imminence of her death and even though she had no idea how it would happen, she no longer felt afraid. This must be what Catholics understand by the purifying power of confession. Deep down inside her, in the shadowy world of her consciousness, she'd always sensed that her life would come to a terrible end. It must do, if an entity existed that ensured justice was done

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

The sins we confess are not just drinking too much beer but also getting drunk on the cocktails of culture. We are not just laying our lives at the altar with nothing to pick up but we are also picking up an irresistible revolution that the world is waiting for.

It is an altar call to the world, an invitation to see a new kind of Christianity and to hear the confession of a church on its knees asking your forgiveness for the mess we have helped create. And it is an "alter" call to the church, to alter our vision from the patterns of this world and create new ways of living.

Rollan didn't admit the other reason.

And, Your Majesty, he was afraid to tell you, but … secretly, he was a Pisces.

I don't know which will upset you more," she replied. "Telling you it's nothing but clutter or confessing that I often take it out and play 'I am Boba Fett' when I don't think anyone can see me.

Whispering against her ear, he confessed, "When I'm really stressed out...I play with my toes." Gwen leaned back a bit and stared at him. "Seriously?" "It's really relaxing and very bearlike." And very weird. And yet..."I'm oddly comforted by this information.

All right fine!" she snapped. "I'm in love with you. There. I said it. Now get over yourself." "You know, I think those are the words written on the Taj Mahal: 'I said it. Now get over yourself.' Some of the greatest love stories have started with those words.

Fuck," Livy said as she buried her face in her hands. "What? What's wrong?" She looked at him. Actually, it was more of a scowl. She scowled at him. "I'm in love with you," Livy snapped. "And it's your fucking fault." "Uh...sorry?" "Oh, shut up." "Well . . . if it makes you feel better, I'm in love with you, too." "As a matter of fact, it doesn't make me feel better.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

He had never even put words to these deepest feelings in his own mind . . . He had never told anyone else. Or even himself. Yet he had told Diana Ingram.

I don't know, Jack. I only know that I love you. And were prepared to pour out all that love in one single night with me? Yes. And don't, please, ask me why. I don't know why. And I did not even know that I would be willing to do something so rash until it happened. And I did not know that I love you until tonight.

God, he said very quietly. I have never been so terrified in my life. What? Diana frowned . . . I said I am terrified, he said. I think I am in love with you, Diana. I have never felt such a thing before or ever expected to do so. You don't have to say this, she said. I told you I expected nothing beyond tonight. I want a lifetime, he said. I want eternity. Diana, send me away.

It no longer came as a surprise to John Candotti that people found him easy to confess to. He was tolerant of human failings and it was rarely difficult for him to say, Well, you screwed up. Everybody screws up. It's okay. His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.

from Emerson's journals. In the context, it is written in the past tense; changing the verb to present tense it reads: The poem is a confession of faith. Which is to say, the poem is not an exercise. It is not 'wordplay.' Whatever skill or beauty it has, in contains something beyond language devices, and has a purpose other than itself.

Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.

I have never been very good at dealing with the police. I always come off as a smart-ass, and whenever I claim to be innocent, not only am I generally not believed, but it tends to make my questioner lose his patience. I also have a special gift for creating misunderstandings in the dialogue. This tends to stoke the already simmering anger of the police, whose sole aim is to pry loose a nice solid confession and go home, happy to have earned their salary.