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Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart. -- Mark Batterson
Let each of you keep close company with his heart, let each of you confess to himself untiringly. Do not be afraid of your sin, even when you perceive it, provided you are repentant, but do not place conditions on God. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and other people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends. -- Timothy Keller
It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. -- Colleen Hoover
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
Without confession, there is no remission of sins. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Sins can only be forgiven if they are first confessed. -- Mary Macdowell
Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper. -- James Purdy
Telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution ... -- John Geddes
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. -- Josh Billings
Confession has a "consequence" too - a good consequence! A free and happy heart! -- Stormie O'martian
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to. -- Keith Richards
If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement. -- Neill F. Marriott
When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins. -- Johnny Hunt
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts. -- Martha Beck
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being. -- F. F. Bosworth
Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession. -- Bryan Chapell
To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge. -- Frederick Buechner
What you CONFESS consistently, you POSSESS eventually. -- Abayomi Aikulola
Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves. -- Stephen King
Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification. -- Douglas Wilson
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. -- Donald Wuerl
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. -- Frank Mccourt
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity. -- Veronica Roth
The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing ... -- Lucy Poate Stebbins
There is always something. That is confession's nature. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen
My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender. -- Gordon Dalbey
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. -- Jeaniene Frost
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. -- Fernando Pessoa
What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible. -- Fernando Pessoa
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. -- J.m. Coetzee
The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession. -- Thomas C. Oden
Hide nothing from your confessor ... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds. -- Margaret Of Cortona
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
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams. -- Seneca The Younger
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
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. -- Isidore Of Seville
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. -- Joni Mitchell
The act of love, for instance, is a confession. -- Albert Camus
Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee, and Thou, my God, hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart? -- Augustine Of Hippo
Advice is always a confession. -- Andre Maurois
How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed. -- Thomas A Kempis
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. -- Cheryl Strayed
Whichever you do, you will repent it. -- Diogenes Laertius
In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released! -- T. B. Joshua
Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent. -- Gina Barreca
You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free. -- Howard Tayler
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it. -- Jeremiah Seed
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. -- Publilius Syrus
Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven ... Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven! -- Francis Of Assisi
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account. -- John Of Kronstadt
...confession means saying that somewhere in the mix was a choice, and the choice was made by us, and it does not need to be excused, explained, or even understood. The choice needs to be forgiven. -- John Ortberg
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it. -- George Macdonald
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. -- Epictetus
People never confess to failure. They should. -- Mo Ibrahim
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity. -- John Of The Cross
Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for. -- Elissa Gabrielle
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse. -- R.a. Salvatore
What sins I commit, I commit them in the open. -- Aleksandr Voinov
Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned -- Sunday Adelaja
I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness.
Now that is what you call a true confession! -- Saurabh Sharma
Forgive that you may be forgiven. -- Seneca The Younger
Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances. -- F. F. Bosworth
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. -- Pope Francis
Nevertheless, here it is: my Hideous Admission. I'll fess up and come clean. I'm out of the closet. I'm dead. Now don't hold it against me. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'll repent one day, just not right now. -- Dmx
When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. When -- Oscar Wilde
What one is ashamed to do one should be ashamed to say. -- Suzanne Woods Fisher
We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I repent nothing, -- Emily St. John Mandel
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession. -- Walter Benjamin
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit. -- Johnny Hunt
Now turn to Matthew, tenth chapter, thirty-second verse: "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." There's the "I will" of confession. -- D.l. Moody
Are there aspects of our lives - things we do, feel and think - that we daren't confess, even to ourselves, even in the absolute privacy of our private record. -- William Boyd
If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God. -- Johnny Hunt
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner. -- T. S. Eliot
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. -- Charles M. Blow
We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Because what good's confession without penance - right, -- Wally Lamb
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins. -- David Whyte
There are sins of omission and sins of commission, my friend. I've dealt with mine and i've forgiven myself ... you should do the same. -- Will Fetters
Remember that the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. -- Louis Begley
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. -- John Milton
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you. -- Pope Francis
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. -- Dorothy Dix
One can repent even of having repented. -- Bernard Berenson
Our sin is never a private matter. We cannot say, It only hurts me. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost. -- Edward T. Welch
