Quotes About Confession

It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I had to believe in something that contradicted what I was doing. I had to genuflect... I had to confess what I thought were sins, but not really sins, but what some people thought were sins.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light.

Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

L'uso del condizionale osservò Giacomorto è spesso una confessione di impotenza - o di vanità.

I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.

I don't blame you. But if there's anything else you have to tell me, now would be the time. He pressed forward, urging me to stretch on the couch. Coming over me, he whispered, I'm in love with you. With everything going wrong, that was the one thing that was totally right. It was enough.

Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what's standing in my way, if anything.

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church.