We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

All art is a confession.

You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I’m awake and dream...

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who...

She didn’t understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.To be saved by her love.No more half-truths. No more...

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely...

Dear Matthew-There’s one more thing I didn’t get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been for a long time. This...

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own — the road to immortal renown lies...

I think I fell in love with you that amazing night on the kitchen floor. Or maybe it was the evening you stepped up and set my arm.” Testing things, he reached for her hand,...

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

Because I am a damned fool. Fuck! Ihave everything I want right in front of me, I love you so damned much I can’t think straight, and then it’s like…I don’tknow, like I’m so afraid...

I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me.

She wasn’t my kind of woman and that’s why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you...

I went to the priest for confession, but he didn’t do it.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there’s no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was...

In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: ‘A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.’ I haven’t...

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

He’s a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

Cristianno Gabbana jamás pedía disculpas y, sin embargo, allí estaba, haciéndolo. En aquel momento parecía tan débil, tan perdido, que mis ojos le miraron con ternura. Me sentía una privilegiada porque me dejase ver aquella...

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have...

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

…you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don’t – I’ve buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up…

As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God’s kingdom than by this world, we’re reminded we will sometimes slip, but ‘if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive...

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly...

She is the principal figure to date to be sentenced by the tribunal, and when you add the confession of guilt it makes for a significant milestone in the work of the tribunal.

Never do anything that you can’t admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it’s probably wrong.

Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Hey, Ethan.””Yeah?””Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?””The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice.”He grinned and shot...

God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are...

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

So what do you have to confess now?”I don’t know why I’m saying any of this, except that is the truth. “I’m confessing that I don’t know if I’m ready for this.””What is ‘this’?””Being open....

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved, … I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves...

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to...