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To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
Advice is always a confession.
Sins can only be forgiven if they are first confessed.
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.
Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.
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.
Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.
Confession has a "consequence" too - a good consequence! A free and happy heart!
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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.
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.
What you CONFESS consistently, you POSSESS eventually.
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
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!
confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words." "It was a very disappointing
just as good as admitted your guilt, we'll know
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.
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
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.
If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.
Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
I repent nothing,
I'll repent one day, just not right now.
God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.
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.
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee, and Thou, my God, hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart?
To confess isn't to tell God anything he doesn't know. It's simply to agree with God on our wrong-doing and wrong-being: that we sin because we are sinners.
Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it ...
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!
One can repent even of having repented.
I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
Whichever you do, you will repent it.
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.
Don't ever regret being honest. Period.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon.
Is your transgression forgiven?
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.
True confession is not just an exchange of information; it also involves entering into the pain of the person we have hurt and entering into God's pain over sin.
The only way to wash away your sins is by feeling guilty..
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.
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
Hide nothing from your confessor ... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
Repentance is a lifetime self-improvement.
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.
Face it, dude. You nearly did sex on God's table. You're already shame spiralling big-time.
Confession ran in the family.
Fix, commit, condemn yourself
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...
Forgiveness is a GIFT to yourself
To do so no more is the truest repentance.
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.
I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated.
The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I absolve you.' Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences himself as truly judged and pardoned by God.
Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
Telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution ...
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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.
When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.
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.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
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.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
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.
Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.
I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost.
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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.
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.
Once a wrong act has been repented of and confessed, it should not be repeated.
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.
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Repentance is an internal shift
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released!
People never confess to failure. They should.
I'm making this confession without hope for absolution.
One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so.
If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.
When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.
Forgive yourself.
No regrets. No apologies.