Quotes About Confession

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

And, till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine.

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

He'll not confess he knew, in the end, that the drama of death does not come into it – that some pain's too dull to be worthy of a romantic shroud. Courage could have brushed glamour over what little there was, but courage is ridiculous when the other person doesn't want to know.

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

And when at last Peter does confess Jesus to be 'the Messiah', 'the Son of the Living God', this is immediately followed not by any declaration of future triumph, but by Jesus' announcement of his passion and death. The revelation of the mistery of the kingdom is at the same time the revelation of the mystery of the cross.

Aku telah melakukan kesalahan dalam hidupku. Di masa silam aku telah mengakuinya dan pengakuan itu menimbulkan kekuatan. Tetapi keberanian dari seseorang terletak pada keyakinannya bahwa dia telah bertindak benar. Aku tidak akan hidup, jika tidak yakin dengan kuat dan pasti, bahwa apa yang kukerjakan waktu itu adalah benar. Kalau tidak begitu aku merupakan orang yang lemah.

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

Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.

No soporté más y estoy confensando que ya sabía una verdad que nunca tuvo utilidad y aplicación, y que tendría miedo de aplicar, pues no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.

He didn't tell me who had the abortion, Mum, just where. And that isn't covered by the confidentiality of confession?

All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.

To write sincerely, almost sincerely! I hope it may bring me relief, that sort of interior silence which follows a sudden utterance, a confession.

Il emportait un malaise qu'il connaissait trop bien, l'agacement, la gêne de ne jamais exprimer ce qu'il eût voulu exprimer, de ne jamais rencontrer la personne à qui il devait confier un aveu indéfini, un secret qui eût tout changé et dépouillé de son signe néfaste.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

The essence of a church confession lies, first of all, in the fact that it bears witness to objective truths. These, like the incarnation or the resurrection of Christ, cannot be derived from subjective experiences and are independent of all subjective opinions. Second, it belongs to the nature of such a confession that it is the creed of the church, that it is confessed not only by an I but by a we.

we are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use.

Latimer says, 'Confession is not a sacrament. Show me where Christ ordained it.' Cranmer says, 'You will not get the king to agree.' Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife's head does not arise every year.

It is not so much who is guilty, as whose guilt is of service to you. . . we are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use.

You love him, too, I think. You've loved him since before you were a prisoner of the Undersea. You loved him when you agreed to marry him. Once this is over, I will find the bravery to tell him.