Confession Quotes

Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

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.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

My whole act is confession.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God!

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

The act of love is a confession.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

No confession brings perfection.

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.

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.

God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

All art is a kind of confession.