Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.
I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession. . . are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Acting is a form of confession.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.