Quotes About Confession

If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity.

Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.

Rule 9 Okay, so a lot of the dog rules, say, the majority, can be made up by the dog, and if the owner knows what's good for him, he will obey these rules, but if he disobeys a rule and the dog doesn't find out about it, the under is under no obligation to confess.

I am safe—I am safe—yes—if I be not fool enough to make open confession!" —EDGAR ALLAN POE, "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another who fairly delivers his arms.

Barack confessed that "during the course of campaigning" "sometimes you lose" your "core truthfulness" and "it becomes a performance

Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.

Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.

David [Foster Wallace] is a Cosmopolitan subscriber; he says reading 'I've Cheated - Should I Tell?' a bunch of times a year is 'fundamentally soothing to the nervous system.

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

Confess what you have done... Do not compound your sin by denying it.

Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move!

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Faith is agreeing with God and saying what He says about you.

I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh.

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy.