Confession Quotes - Page 13

• Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

  Stefan Zweig

  Children, Mean, Sleep

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.19, Pushkin Press

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• I'm not good, Mac. Never have been.' What-true confession time? my eyes tease. Don't need it. 'I want what I want and I take it.' Is he warning me? What could he possibly threaten me with now? 'There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Needs, Warning

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.475, Delacorte Press

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• The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Brother, Thinking, Night

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• My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Constant

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• 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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Confused, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.101, Scholastic UK

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• We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

  Walter Benjamin

  Important, Intimate, Share

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.

  Joseph Prince

  Christian, Inspiration, Thinking

  Joseph Prince (2011). “100 Days of Favor”, p.124, Charisma Media

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• This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Book, Adventure

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.54, Infobase Publishing

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• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Church

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Jesus, Believe

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• I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].

  Lucas Cruikshank

  Support, Fans, Honestly

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• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Names

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• For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

  Peter Sagal

  Catholic, Church, England

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

  Sarah Silverman

  Father, Forgive Me, Heaven

  "Sarah Silverman, Serving Up Sinfully Divine Comedy". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 23, 2013.

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• If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.

  Matthea Harvey

  Taken, Writing, Feet

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

  Phillip Lopate

  Lonely, Confusion, Darkness

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Practice, Names

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering would reduce that perfection, so God cannot suffer. More thoughtful theologians take the phrase in the sense of one of the confessions of faith that talks of God as being "without parts or passions" - he is not physical as we are, and not subject to "passions" in the sense of uncontrollable emotions that can take charge of us at times. God is not "emotional," if that word is used as some kind of weakness.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Philosophy, Passion, Thoughtful

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

  Stephen Dunn

  Style, World, Sensibility

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. 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.

  Kam Williams

  Grief, Blessed, Blessing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Peace, War, Women

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• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Father, Hands, Water

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