Quotes About Confessions

When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries. We also help them realize that other Christians have asked the same questions.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

As a commentary makes no sense without the text which it is expounding, so also the Confessions make no sense without the Bible.

People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

You'd be surprised what people say across the manicure table.

Quite often I reflect on the big house in Hollywood, on 'Midnight Confessions and on Ramon Novarro and on the fact that Roman Polanski and I are godparents to the same child, but writing has not yet helped me to see what it means.

Augustine's Confessions...What it is, therefore, he begins, that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?

People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.

In fact, as I will show in the next chapter, the Bible contains an extravagant welcome for sexual minorities. In church governance, our confessions and Book of Order embody a trajectory of evergreater inclusiveness.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it is self-esteem.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Was this what families did? Bared their souls in front of an entire room of people? Their confessions left me raw. These were the kinds of conversations I didn't know how to have.

Fortunately, a detective is always present to take over when I break the surface. The psychological work has been done and it is up to the detectives to process the legal side regarding confessions and the trial. The relationship between us is one of utter trust. The detectives have to trust me to do my work but I can understand that it is very difficult for them not to interrupt. I trust them to catch us when we surface and to take over.

I questioned the suspect again, asking about his life. This time he mentioned that he had slept in his mother's bed until the age of sixteen. He had lost his virginity as a teenager to a woman about the same age as his mother and he had contracted venereal diseases from prostitutes. The thought that he might have had sex with his mother crossed my mind, but I did not pursue this.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.

Only your doubt and disbelief can interrupt the flow of His blessings. Your attitude, your confessions, and your thoughts all play a vital part in opening and closing the floodgates of His blessing on your life.