Quotes About Confession

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It is like confessing to a murder.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

Never underrate your confession. Destiny transformation begins when you begin to make positive confession about yourself

The Word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth is creative power.