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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a 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.
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."
A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.
Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.
The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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.
Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
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.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon.
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
