Confession Quotes
130 quotes
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
"And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you."
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
"Before the NSA there was the Catholic Church. What is confessional if not a place to gather secrets? No wonder the church had all the power."
"Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong."
"I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me."
"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."
"The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed."
"Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning."
"Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart."
Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
"What's wrong with the world?It's easy to probe the ills of the nation, the Church, and the planet and come up with a grave diagnosis... But it takes all the strength we can muster to stand at Mass and honestly say, 'I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do..."Sin is not out there; it's deep inside you and me... What's wrong with the world? I am, because I sin, and my sins well up from the darkness in my own heart."
"Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up."
Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
"The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I absolve you.' Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences himself as truly judged and pardoned by God."
Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
"One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness."
Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
"The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession."
Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
"A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish."
Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."
"Every secret deed lays opened before God."
"I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change."
"I love you.”I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this.He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind lagged behind what my body was feeling.“Say it,” he whispered against my lips. “I know this is hard for you. Tell me.”“I love you.” Hearing my own words, I gasped at the rush of emotion.He put his hands on either side of my jaw and took my mouth with his."
"I think I fell in love with you that amazing night on the kitchen floor. Or maybe it was the evening you stepped up and set my arm." Testing things, he reached for her hand, and, to his joy, she glared, but she let him take it. "Or maybe the night I knew I loved you was when I kissed you under the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. It's hard to say because I look at you now and it seems to me there's never been a time when I didn't love you."
"I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you."
"A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace."
"This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!"
"The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse."
"If people confess to you their mistakes; Give them a chance, Because you really need those who have learnt what is right."
"On the way home from church, I felt like I was walking on clouds, as pure as an angel. I wished a car would run me down at that very instant, so I could die and go straight to heaven before I had a chance to sin again."
Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
"You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloudThat's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteriesPortraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")"
"Man confesses God forgives"
"Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than on the bloody sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The importance of interior dispositions and the necessity of reconciling ourselves with God by agreeing to let ourselves be purified by the sacrament of confession are no longer in fashion today."
Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
"Without confession, there is no remission of sins."
"To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events."
"Hey, Ethan.""Yeah?""Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?""The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice."He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up."
"We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance."
"But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life."
"Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars."
"LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness."
"Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this."
"Whoever confesses his sins, shall obtain the mercy of God's grace."
"O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!"
"With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful."
"Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls."
"The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace."
"I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you."
"When you pretend you don’t feel hurt or angry or devastated, you’re not fooling God. Be honest! Don’t misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point."
Randy Alcorn, Ninety Days of God's Goodness: Daily Reflections That Shine Light on Personal Darkness
"I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away."
"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never."
"I don’t have any fancy story,about the way we fell in love.It was that one awkward move,and the next I remember, I was looking at you."
"Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls."
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