Quotes About Confession
Well, dear heart,' said he, 'I wanted to tell you about it yesterday, and I have come to do so today. I've never experienced anything like it before. I am in love, my friend!' Suddenly Pierre heaved a deep sigh and dumped his heavy person down on the sofa beside Prince Andrei. 'With Natasha Rostova, yes?' said he.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Well they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes And I touched the dew on their hem. When your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
~ Leonard Cohen
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I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind I confess that I've forgotten what for Why wings and a lost mind
~ Leonard Cohen
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They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.
~ Lev Shestov
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~ Paul Tournier
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Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
~ Donald Wuerl
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I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.
~ Jasper Carrott
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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
~ Aldrich Ames
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My Valentine's playlist... you're gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You're gonna have to play some 112. You're gonna have to play some Confession - Usher's - back in the day. You know, a little bit of Prince Royce there, too.
~ Prince Royce
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Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there, Willie said with a grin. An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.
~ Janette Oke
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The last song tonight is "Moment of Surrender," a hymn of suffering and redemption, a confession and plea, a very Bono mash-up of religion and mysticism, delivered as a hypnotic chant. I am mesmerized.
~ Jann S. Wenner
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
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Let the numberless legion of my fellow men gather round me and hear my confessions. Let them groan at my depravities, and blush for my misdeeds. But let each one of them reveal his heart at the foot of Thy throne with equal sincerity, and may any man who dares, say, "I was a better man that he.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
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My usual confessional is a straight Macallan but not before 5 o'clock. Perhaps that's why I try and have my crises in the evening.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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Nie to najci??ej wyzna?, co w nas jest zbrodnicze, ale co wstydliwe i ?mieszne
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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What." Oh, for God's sake. "Fine. Why wouldn't it ever work out?" "Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally… in love with you." Qhuinn's mouth dropped open.
~ J.R. Ward
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I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.
~ Tom Holland
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People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.
~ Max Lucado
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A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.
~ Jack Monroe
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I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?
~ Joe Bob Briggs
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interviewing that people said he could make a stump confess to saying "timber.
~ Unknown
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John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.
~ Tom Standage
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
~ Tony Campolo
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