Quotes About Confession

He had been asked to take the collection at Holy Communion, and so he did, but, when he got to his knees to make his general confession, he could not admit that what he had done was an offense to divine majesty; the burden of his sins was not intolerable; the memory of them was anything but grievous.

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

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.

Mistakes are almost always forgivable if you have the courage to admit them.

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out, as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lords care.

I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'You have to ask for it.' I gave him absolution and said, 'Now go to the court and tell them everything that you've told me.' And that is exactly what he did. He made a public declaration of everything he said to me,

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Yes, I've killed! I've killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

I lied all my life.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

Gruber's confession came too late to stop Obamacare, but it has permanently damaged its reputation. Now the left hates Gruber, not because he lied, but because he told the truth. Telling the truth is a cardinal sin among thieves.

He drank, gambled, drove his car down embankments, got fired, quit, retired, traveled in disguise to Coaltown where he paid a woman to speak Swedish to him as they screwed. It was the Swedish that enrage Babette, either that or his need to confess it, and she hit out at him - hit out with the backs of her hands, with her elbows and wrists. Old loves, old fears.

I am an alcoholic. I'm the first to admit that. I can't drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand's not enough.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

Todo el sistema sacrificial del Antiguo Testamento estableció a Cristo crucificado. Cada animal ofrecido en un altar era una confesión práctica de que era necesario un Salvador que muriera por los pecadores, un Salvador que quitara el pecado del hombre, por su sufrimiento, como su Sustituto, es decir, que padeciera en su lugar (1 P. 3:18). ¡Es absurdo suponer que el sacrificio de animales inocentes, sin más objetivo que la sola muerte, podría agradar al Dios eterno!

Señor, perdona todos mis pecados y, especialmente, los de omisión".

You--Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?" "That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.

Mari took one more look at the Mechanic boiler, bit her lip, then looked at him. "I'm going to say this because in another minute we may be dead, and I don't want to die not having told you. I love you.