Quotes with confession

  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
  • A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.

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  • Albert Camus A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A confession has to be part of your new life.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • James Baldwin All art is a kind of confession.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Helen Rowland Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Dorothy Dix Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
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  • Peter de Vries Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Richard D. Rosen Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
    Richard D. Rosen
    American author
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  • Henry David Thoreau Faith never makes a confession.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bill Hybels If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Roland Barthes Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bill Hybels One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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