Confession Quotes - Page 17

• Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

  Charles Simmons

  Failure, Excuse, Dare

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• Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
  --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Divorce, Catholic

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• Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Suffering, Speak

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• What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Suicide, Should Have, What Matters

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• If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow - through our premature death or through His unexpected coming - what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgivenesses would we extend? What testimonies would we bear? If we would do those things then, why not now?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Practice, Why Not, Today

  "Preparation for the Second Coming". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2004.

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• ... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

  George Eliot

  Past, Form, Response

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

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• every smart / Is eased in telling.

  Georgiana Goddard King

  Smart, Very Smart

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Doctrine, Realizing

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• I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

  Francis Xavier

  Heard, Covetousness

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• The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.

  Paul Ekman

  Opposites, Two, Wish

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• So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.

  George Harrison

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

  Athol Fugard

  Heart, Asking Questions, Judging

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• Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Diversity, The End Of The Day

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• The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into the center of grand events. Meticulously-researched, this engrossing novel offers a fresh portrait of a queen who has too often been portrayed as a villain. Bravo Mr. Gortner!

  Sandra Gulland

  Queens, Passion, Epic

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• 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.

  Brother Roger

  Brother, Men, Heaven

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• Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Judgment, Imagine

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.374, Stanford University Press

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• Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Truth, Essentials, May

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• Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

  Donald Wuerl

  Children, People, Joy

  "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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• My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Self, Interesting, Diaries

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.363, Courier Dover Publications

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• My nature is a quagmire
  of unresolved confessions.

  Robert Creeley

  Quagmire

  Robert Creeley (1966). “Poems 1950-1965”

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• Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Terrible

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The poem is a confession of faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Want, Return

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