Quotes About Confession

it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

I see you every day at school, we are young but I know I love you. Every time I talk to you my heart beats fast my mouth goes dry my heart aches for you. It hurts to love you so much. I wish you knew. I'm to afraid to tell you how I feel.

Mary E. DeMuth

Which weakness shall I tell her? "I walk funny," I say, and she's satisfied with that. (inside joke)

I know you've never wanted to hear this, but after yesterday I have to say it…" He paused, swallowed, as if afraid. "I love you. I love you with every breath, with every thought that's inside me. I've loved you from the first time I kissed you on that ledge. Even before that.

He never took his eyes off my face as I told him about Mack

Vertel me alles. - Vicky

I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.

reduced after that episode to admitting, "I'm

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

It's uncomfortable to look at ourselves, assess our selfishness and sinfulness, and tell another human being about it.

Confession is a swimming against the stream. Now many may swim with the stream, like the dead fish, that cannot swim against the stream, with the living fish. Many may profess Christ, that cannot confess Christ; and so, notwithstanding their profession, yet are but almost Christians.

Nothing moves an older man more than a confession of inexperience from a younger, particularly if the latter be his social superior.

From this magnificent piece of inspired literature, we conclude that confessing our sin is a vital part of vibrant, victorious Christian living.

A ljubav ti je razumna jer joj ne vjeruješ suviše. Kao ni ja. Samo ne?u to da priznam.

she told me her secret. And showed me what darkness was, and is, and how it works, and how it never goes away or ends.

You must tell me the truth. I've seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.

The writing of this book serves as a kind of confession. You, the readers, will be my confidants. I'm going to tell you all my secrets. Things I've never told anybody. Things I don't want anybody to know! I don't want you to breathe a word of what you find out in this book. Keep everything under your hat! Wait a minute, wait a minute…that might not work. I'm not in a confessional booth, and a lot of you are probably not priests. This is a book!

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Once, last year, I started going through my sins and Father Stephen said, "Oh, it's you, Josie." Can you believe it? He recognised me by my sins. I'm so boring that I can't even change my sins from term to term.

When I was eight years old," the priest-king confessed, "I wanted to be a god." The holy man looked around the ragged tent. "Perhaps this is my punishment, but between you and me, I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.