Confession Quotes

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.

~ George Orwell

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

~ Ally Carter

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

~ Samantha Young

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

~ Fulton J. Sheen

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 chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.

~ Criss Jami

A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

~ Charles Simic

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

~ George Washington

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

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Dorothy Dix

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

~ Lailah Gifty

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

~ Simon Van Booy

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.”“What?” she demanded.He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

~ Julia Quinn

I love you.”I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this.He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind lagged behind what my body was feeling.“Say it,” he whispered against my lips. “I know this is hard for you. Tell me.”“I love you.” Hearing my own words, I gasped at the rush of emotion.He put his hands on either side of my jaw and took my mouth with his.

~ Jennifer Echols

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, and, to his joy, she glared, but she let him take it. Or maybe the night I knew I loved you was when I kissed you under the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. It's hard to say because I look at you now and it seems to me there's never been a time when I didn't love you.

~ Maggie Osborne

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

~ Maggie Osborne

A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace.

~ Lailah Gifty

This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

If people confess to you their mistakes; Give them a chance, Because you really need those who have learnt what is right.

~ Mohith Agadi

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloudThat's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteriesPortraits of great men and a thousand different headlines(Zone)

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

Some priests unfaithful to the memory of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than on the bloody sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The importance of interior dispositions and the necessity of reconciling ourselves with God by agreeing to let ourselves be purified by the sacrament of confession are no longer in fashion today.

~ Robert Sarah

To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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 the ball. It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

~ Kami Garcia

Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, it is virtually impossible. ... The scheme in question is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. This has been thought of from the earliest historical times, and for that very reason is looked upon as impracticable. Geographical dictionaries inform us indeed that the project would have been executed long ago but for insurmountable obstacles. [On his inspiration for the Suez Canal.]

~ Ferdinand De Lesseps

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 necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

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 finally brought me back to life.

~ Colleen Hoover

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

~ Paul David Tripp

LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.

~ Tara Estacaan

Whoever confesses his sins, shall obtain the mercy of God's grace.

~ Lailah Gifty

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

~ Georges Bernanos

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.

~ Kate Karyus Quinn

With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

Jesus Christ seeks to save lost souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you pretend you don’t feel hurt or angry or devastated, you’re not fooling God. Be honest! Don’t misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.

~ Randy Alcorn

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

~ Colleen Hoover

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

~ Kij Johnson

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.

~ Jane Austen

I don’t have any fancy story,about the way we fell in love.It was that one awkward move,and the next I remember, I was looking at you.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Jesus Christ seeks to save the lost souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are new Creation by the blood of Jesus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita