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.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
No confession brings perfection.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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?
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.
All confessions are Odysseys.
My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.
My whole act is confession.
All art is a kind of confession.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves.
True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.