Confession Quotes - Page 10

• 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."

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Greek, Inquiry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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• Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, World, Opinion

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

  Debra Dean

  New York, Fall, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

  Thomas Otway

  Boys, Mind, Coward

  Lynette Feasey, John Milton, Thomas Otway, William Congreve (1951). “And so to the playhouse”

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• confession ran in the family.

  Iris Murdoch

  Ran

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.97, Penguin

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Hands, Feet, Sorrow

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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• ... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

  Margaret Deland

  Justice, Soul, Different

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

  Mary Antin

  Bed, Autobiography, Death Bed

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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

  Georgia Harkness

  Sin, Forget, Danger

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• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Writing, Soul

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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• I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

  Lance Armstrong

  Names, Long, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Children, Abuse, Beaten

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• It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

  Charles Studd

  Real, Men, Soldier

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• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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• I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Rain, Airports

  "Taylor Swift in Wonderland". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 25, 2012.

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• My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Passion, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

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• Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Crazy, Heart, Blood

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin

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• In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,
  Will you still care? Will you be there?
  In my trials and my tribulations,
  Through our doubts and frustrations,
  In my violence and my turbulence,
  Through my fear and my confessions,
  And my anguish and my pain,
  Through my joy and my sorrow,
  In the promise of another tomorrow,
  I'll never let you part,
  For you're always in my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Pain, Heart, Frustration

  "Song: 'Will You Be There'". 1993.

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

  Richard Sibbes

  Way, Sin

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• They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

  Emile Zola

  Relationship, Heart, Talking

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

  Chris Rock

  Want, Evidence, Stills

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• He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ. It is for this purpose that the mild tribunal of penitence was here initiated, in order that we, being cleansed and amended through penitence here below, may give an answer without shame at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Order, Giving

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