Confession Quotes

• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Definitions, Pages

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Sin, Unhappiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Believe, Thinking, Results

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• Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Honesty, Forgiving God, Sin

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States”, United States Catholic Conference

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• 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.

  Martha Beck

  Heart, Path, May

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• In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Failing, Lord

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• Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Mean, Care, Sometimes

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.52, Moody Publishers

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• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Errors, Stronger

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• A confession has to be part of your new life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Philosophical, Confessing

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 18e), 1980.

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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Vanity, Greed

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• In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Medicine

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• Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Past, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

  Henri Rousseau

  Guilt, Criminals, Ridiculous

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• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Evil, Saint

  "Tractates on the Gospel of John" by Saint Augustine, tractate XII on John 3:6-21, § 13,

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• Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Daily Activities, Spirit

  R. C. Sproul (1991). “Following Christ”, Tyndale House Pub

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• 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, Certain

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• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  Adam Garcia

  Queens, Teenage, Drama

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

  Marlon Riggs

  Self, Has Beens, Concealment

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• There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

  Joni Mitchell

  Honesty, Needs, World

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• Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

  Anatole France

  Repentance, Spoil

  Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

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• Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! Go, the priest will be good. And Jesus, (will be) there, and Jesus is better than the priests - Jesus receives you. He will receive you with so much love! Be courageous, and go to confession.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Love Is, Long

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Organization, Civil War, Events

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

  Dorothy Dix

  Punishment, Keeping Secrets, Silence

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• If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
  shut out pardon.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Shut Up, Sin

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