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Confession Quotes - Page 2

Acting is a form of confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead
Acting, Confession, Form
Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.320, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Ryan Stiles
Shirts, Confession, Priests
"Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Roland Barthes
Lying, Confession, Myth
Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.

Pope Francis
Jesus, Forgiving, Confession

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

Martin Luther
Forgiving, Satisfaction, Confession

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, Weakness, Confession
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Alison Bechdel
Catholic, Confession, Appeals

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

William Sargant
Guilt, Conflict, Confession

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

Mignon McLaughlin
Soul, Bypass, Confession
Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs
Self, Confession, Has Beens

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

Marilyn Manson
Waiting, Confession, Heard
Song: Spade

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Pope Francis
Way, Confession, Sacraments

Do not be afraid of confession!

Pope Francis
Confession
Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.19, Loyola Press

Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

Pope Francis
Path, Week, Confession

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Religious, People, Confession

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

Herbert Eugene Bolton
Atheist, Bragging, Confession

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

G. C. Berkouwer
Saving, Confession, Authority

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

Chris Rock
Want, Confession, Evidence

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Bill Vaughan
Veils, Confession, Secrecy

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

Arthur W. Pink
Prayer, Needs, Confession

The confession of one man humbles all.

Antonio Porchia
Men, Confession, One Man

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Anatole France
Confession, Repentance, Spoil
Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus
Art, Confession, Art Is
Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

Simone de Beauvoir
Book, Honest, Confession

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Saint Augustine
Innocence, Mercy, Confession
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.181, OUP Oxford

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