Confession Quotes

• In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Failing, Lord

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• 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.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Needs

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• Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Honesty, Forgiving God, Sin

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States”, United States Catholic Conference

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• Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Heart, Giving

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• It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Sin, Unhappiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Believe, Thinking, Results

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• The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Biblical, Men

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• A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humble, Recovery, Pride

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• Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

  Pope Francis

  Way, Sacraments, Tenderness

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• 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 repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Doe, Way

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• A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Men, Dust

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Heart, Long

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• Acting is a form of confession.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Acting, Form

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.320, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• The confession of one man humbles all.

  Antonio Porchia

  Men, One Man

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• Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

  Anita Brookner

  Truth, Doe, Blame

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

  Martha Beck

  Heart, Path, May

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• God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Clean, Made

  Max Lucado (2006). “Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People”, p.197, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Guilt

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

  Anatole France

  Repentance, Spoil

  Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

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• 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

  Mean, Care, Sometimes

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.52, Moody Publishers

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• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent… we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Creativity, Doors

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