Confession Quotes

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix
Silence Soul Confession Own Secrets Punishment Weakness Takes Always Grave Keeps
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus
Work Art Needs Confession Guilty Confess Conscience
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field. Lou Holtz
God Strength Prayer Grace Confession Discipline Word Sacrifice Field Back Sacrament Through Puts Sin Due Essential Happen Gain Gonna Us Receive
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Saint Augustine
Good Confession Evil First Beginning Good Works Works
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. Saint Bernard
God Heart Humble Confession Devil Human Heart Had He Sin Over Makes Loses Sovereignty Human Gained Who Thereby
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character People Confession World See Seem Also Opinion
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. Giacomo Casanova
Life Good Confession Will Evil Free My Life Whatever Has-Been Freely Course Am Been Begin Done Whether Agent
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx
Art Time Confession Secret Everywhere Immortal Always Same Same Time Movement
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. Daniel Webster
Confession Suicide Refuge
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. Mahatma Gandhi
Strength Confession Stronger Broom Dirt Clearer Feel Like Surface Leaves Errors Which Away Brighter
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. Thomas Aquinas
Good Together Confession Three Omission Penance Purpose Good Works Sin Sorrow Without Conditions Sins Amendment Contrition Any Which Means Works Satisfaction Necessary
A confession has to be part of your new life. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life Confession New Life Part New Your
With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue. Adam Cohen
Confession Convictions Awareness Increased Trial Willingness About Clear Come Untrue Greater Becomes How Caution Overturn Confessions Should Used
True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing. Jane Lindskold
Time Book Writing Confession Mind Enthusiasm Feeling Out Hunting Bored Gut Gut Feeling Pursue Never Knew True Know Tiger Trail Get Going Stop Where Story Then
When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public. Matt Apuzzo
Time Me Confession Long Long Time Important About Something Write Known Withheld Acknowledging Public Boast
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Peter De Vries
Good Soul Confession Sense Rather Only Remedy Than Coat
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
Death Truth Bible Dignity Confession Guilt Face Interpretation Everyone Hopelessness About Something Sees Baffling Absurd Reveals Person Endgame Different Apocalypse Meaningless Painful Each Play Portrait Watching Night Babble
Acting is a form of confession. Tallulah Bankhead
Confession Form Acting
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. Alison Bechdel
Great Me Confession Know Catholic Because Always Maybe Held Appeal Raised
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. Billy Sunday
Confession Christ Men Manly Think Way Must One Thing Some Some Men Something Emotion Open Come Like Him Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Womanly Stirred Lack Persons Certain Certain Way Lived Lives Thing Jesus Jesus Christ
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. Bruce Feiler
Parenting Hate Confession Earnest Books Repetitive Here
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. Charlie Sykes
Confession Chronic Make Repeat Child
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate. D. B. Sweeney
Confession Country Signed Joe He Country Boy Read Boy Tragic Jackson Figure Who Serene Illiterate
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. DeWitt Clinton
Confession Will Secrecy Priest Veil His Nor Sinner Confess Receive
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. Erik Erikson
Judge Confession Made Out Potential Ruthless Part Between Nobody Likes Reader Least His Lines Any Who Profession Therefore Even Found
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! Ernestine Rose
You Woman Confession Rude Men Drinking Fighting Humiliating Plea Background Say Would Lies Some Contact Box Ballot Ballot Box Swearing Expose Rough Keeping
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