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• Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

  Gina Barreca

  Tattoo, Pain, Mean

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• Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

  Joseph Caryl

  Needs, Sin, Mercy

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• The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Telling The Truth, Ends, Oneself

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• 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.

  Diana Butler Bass

  Creating, Community, Christianity

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• There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

  Daniel Webster

  Suicide, Suicidal, Keeping Secrets

  Summation in murder trial of John Francis Knapp, Salem, Mass., 1830

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• Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

  Donald Wuerl

  Mother, Saint, Use

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

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• We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Keeping Secrets, People, Littles

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• Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mean, Omission, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.86, Sophia Institute Press

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• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Art, Secret

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• All confessions are Odysseys.

  Raymond Queneau

  Odyssey

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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Psychoanalysis, Absolution

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• I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Evil, Done, Agents

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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  Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Religion, Popcorn

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• We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

  Gerald Brenan

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Ridiculous

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• My whole act is confession.

  Shelley Berman

  Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, People, Office

  "Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims". Book by William Hazlitt. No. 43, 1823.

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• Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Lying, Sacred, Exaggeration

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.9, Chronicle Books

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Soul, Bypass, Conscience

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

  Frank Warren

  Kindness, Heart, Laughing

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• In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wicked, Retail

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• Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

  Roland Barthes

  Lying, Myth

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Emotional, Consistency

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

  Ryan Stiles

  Shirts, Priests, Backwards

  "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 201), www.oocities.org. October 7, 1999.

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