We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.
I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
More than anything else, judgment will take you out of the present moment. It will take you out of Oneness into separation. Whenever judgment arises within you, just notice it. Acknowledge it. Confess it. It is just an energy arising within you. Do not judge it or try to get rid of it. Just bring it to consciousness with love, acceptance and compassion. In this way, judgment will be transformed into love.
I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.
Confess and be hanged.
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh.
. . . we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
I choose goodness. . . I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.