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Quotes About Confession

If I tell you will you go?" "What? I don't get. What do you mean?" "I love you, Kotohiki. I've loved you for a real long time.
~ Koushun Takami
And then I did the stupidest thing I've ever done. "They're not here," I said. I knew, as the words left my mouth, that I had just made a deep mistake.
~ Kristen D. Randle
Sotto molti rispetti il contribuito del clero al benessere della comunità non è molto diverso da quello dello psichiatra nella società odierna ed è stato osservato che nei Paesi dove la gente ricorre meno al confessore finisce col ricorrere di più allo psichiatra.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Centuries of experience show that people will tell their tormenters what they want to hear, whether it's confessing to witchcraft in Salem, admitting to counterrevolutionary tendencies in Soviet Russia or concocting stories about Iraq and Al Qaeda."20 Indeed, the Senate Intelligence report confirmed that no information gained from torturing detainees had proved useful in capturing or killing any terrorist, including Osama bin Laden.
~ Carol Tavris
that guy came here to confess." "Are you a priest?" "No, I am a church!
~ Caroline Kepnes
Okay, so what happened to you? For real?" I was born to indifferent parents and like a lot of children, I fell prey to an abusive male authority figure who taught me that violence is a legitimate means of coping and then last night, one of our fellows drugged me and coerced me into confessing to a boatload of crimes. "I lost my phone.
~ Caroline Kepnes
feel like a sucker and I want to tear my own head off because I can't believe that I fell for his bullshit. I can't believe I told him things I never tell anyone.
~ Caroline Kepnes
The point is, buying stuff is one of the only honest things we do. That guy didn't come in here for Dan Brown or Salinger. That guy came in here to confess." "Are you a priest?" "No. I'm a church." "Amen.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.
~ Caroline Rhea
Monsters? Why? Because we admit to the pain we cause? Admit we like it?...
~ Carrie Jones
It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.
~ George MacDonald
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
~ George Orwell
now?" Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed
~ George R.R. Martin
Vannak titkok, amelyeket sohasem szabad kimondani, szégyenteljes dolgok, amelyeket jobb, ha az ember magával visz a sírba.
~ George R.R. Martin
What I am about to record would not reveal much to the only friend with whom I still manage to speak openly, and besides I know I could never bring myself to put on paper the things which almost every morning I confide to God without any shame.
~ Georges Bernanos
Spiro, we have a problem,' he confessed. It was like saying 'walkies' to a bull mastiff.
~ Gerald Durrell
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
~ Cicero
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
~ Bible
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
~ C. S. Lewis
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
~ J. D. Salinger
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
~ G. K. Chesterton
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
~ Matthew Prior