Quotes About Confession

She remembered his voice, so calm it chilled her. "Lady Maud, if I die, say the Liturgy of the Fallen for me." Saying the Liturgy of the Fallen fell to the one you treasured most. Your spouse. Your lover. Your one who was everything. She couldn't dishonor that confession and she answered him in the language of vampires. "Go with the Goddess, my Lord. You won't be forgotten.

Want to know a secret?" "Sure." "It's not the bathtub, baby.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

You've got to see me , Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

A strong offensive is indicated. The stalemate you seem to be satisfied with is fatal. It would be a confession of weakness to all the worlds of the Periphery, where the appearance of strength is all-important, and there's not one vulture among

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Le dije, en resumen, todas las locuras que nunca le hubiera dicho si pudiera oírme y que nunca he vuelto a decir a ninguna mujer.

Un matón a sueldo es lo mismo que una confesión de culpa.

Incapaz de seguir cargando solo con la incertidumbre, el desaliento y los súbitos arranques de esperanza del amor callado, Miller finalmente le había confesado a Pedro Alarcón que estaba enamorado.

Para una mujer en mi situación era fácil conseguirlo; incluso mi confesor, un fraile maloliente y lascivo, pretendía que pecáramos juntos en su polvoriento confesionario a cambio de indulgencias para acortar mi condena en el purgatorio. Nunca accedí; era un viejo maldito.

She'd once admitted during confession that she felt doomed to bear only sons, like a curse from the Devil. In penitence she was ordered to recite a rosary every day for two years straight and to make a sizable donation to the church renovation fund. Her husband forbade her from returning to confession.

Open confession is good for the soul.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

He that jokes confesses.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

I can't resist you," he said quietly. "You know that, don't you? And I'm tired of pretending I can." His expression grew more troubled. "But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could choose anyone in this world to love it'd be you.

No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad. —¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado den fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación. —Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins—my real sins—was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

I have been telling a lot of lies lately.

Boast disguised as confession. Threat disguised as confession.