A Quote by Frances Burney
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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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.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.
Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.
And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.
I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.
I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when he finishes confessing, he leaves free, great, beautiful, forgiven, [...] happy. And this is the beauty of Confession... Jesus is there...and He receives you with so much love.
I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
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