To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels her renewal. But if you leave your spiritual father in a state of confusion, this means that you did not confess purely and did not forgive your brother all of his sins from your heart.
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.
My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not. )
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!