Confession Quotes
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are. (Quote by - Louis Cassels)
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Short of a confession, short of someone coming forward and acknowledging that they committed the offence, I think it's hard to imagine that. (Quote by - David Gibson)
The rest of this horrible tragedy is explained in an awful lot of detail by the defendant's confession. (Quote by - Darryl Stallworth)
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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Objectively recording and filming interrogations concerning job- related crimes will help prevent violations of the law, help ensure the accuracy of key evidence and prevent criminal suspects from revoking confessions or bringing false charges against interrogators. (Quote by - Wang Zhenchuan)
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. (Quote by - St. Jerome)
Silence (in court)
may be equivalent to confession. (Quote by - The Talmud)
Confessed faults are half-mended. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. (Quote by - De Witt Clinton)
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
There is a luxury in self- reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. (Quote by - Ovid)
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. (Quote by - Johann Gottfried Von Herder)
They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here. (Quote by - Kinky Friedman)
Confession may be good for the soul, but not on Wall Street. The negative pre- announcements that have been with us for the past two weeks has begun to accelerate with 21 confessions yesterday (Wednesday) and a handful this morning. This sets up some fear and trembling about the wide range of reports to come through most of July. (Quote by - Larry Wachtel)
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind: remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)
Open confession is good for the soul. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
Revenge is a confession of pain. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Ridicule is a public confession of fear. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
No confession, no prints, no murder weapon and no eyewitnesses. It was purely a case built on motive. (Quote by - David Hoffman)
None but the well- bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? / And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (Quote by - Bible)
Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! - - hang him!. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: / But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. (Quote by - Bible)
I own the soft impeachment. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. (Quote by - Ninon de Lenclos)
There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, .. I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends. (Quote by - Joseph Towle)
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. (Quote by - Madonna)
What's stunning about their ability to raise reasonable doubt there is that the facts clearly show that he intentionally slit her throat despite his jailhouse confession to the contrary. Somehow Brittain and Williams raised enough reasonable doubt on that question to avoid the needle. (Quote by - Bob Phillips)
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. (Quote by - Seneca)
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less. (Quote by - Ani Difranco)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)
The hallmark of a false confession is where the confession did not fit with the knowable, verifiable facts of the crime. (Quote by - Steven Drizin)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception That I do groan withal. Thou art to die. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. (Quote by - Fanny Burney)
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion. (Quote by - Brennan Manning)
The Supreme Court felt that these warnings were critical in order to ensure the confessions are truly voluntary and not coerced. And now what the 4th Circuit has said is, we don't need these warnings. And I think what that will lead to is more coerced confessions. (Quote by - David Cole)
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is not automatic, that just because someone makes a confession means it's true. Sometimes the person making the confession is simply trying to protect himself or herself or protect someone else. (Quote by - Paul Reim)
If we can prove the state police fabricated a confession to put a man on death row, it will raise serious questions about the legitimacy of other confessions in other cases. So the stake it high. (Quote by - Peter Neufeld)
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. (Quote by - Anatole France)
he was able to take important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he has signed these confessions and there is video and audio for these confessions. (Quote by - Jalal Talabani)
He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self- reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. (Quote by - Bible)
Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. (Quote by - Maimonides)
We have found explosives, vehicles for car bombs, remote control bombs and so on. After the investigation, the two Pakistanis have confessed they had been trained in Pakistan for the suicide explosion. (Quote by - Assadullah Khalid)
We deny in the clearest terms that he ever confessed to shooting the lady. (Quote by - Bruce Cutler)
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, .. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it. (Quote by - Tori Amos)
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do. (Quote by - Gerald Word)
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
They tore my shirt off, they tore it off my back, and I was being whipped on my bare back, Confess! Confess!. (Quote by - Ahmed Omar Abu Ali)
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
A confession has to be part of your new life. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
