Quotes About Confession

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: "I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.

People can't function without forgiveness. It's why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on.

Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.

But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

Nous autres banquiers nous sommes un peu comme les prêtres, Monseigneur. Vous confessez les âmes ; nous confessons les bourses, et sommes nous aussi tenus au secret.

Es stimmt nicht einmal, daß ich immer nur mich selbst beschrieben habe. Ich habe mich selbst nie beschrieben. Ich habe mich nur verraten.

I confessed I knew nothing about art—she based her view on a saying of her mother's that anyone can respond to a work of art except the cultured philistine. "That's very kind of your mother!" I said.

Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. "There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can't budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?" God's seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.