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• Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Garbage, Sin, Enough

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• It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Hate, Men, Impossible

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• For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

  Karl Barth

  Heart, Suffering, Church

  "Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust". Book by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, 1997.

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• With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Feet, Touching

  'Miss Mackenzie' (1865) ch. 10

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• As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

  Alexander Borodin

  People, Relaxation, Musical

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• Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Desire, Confession

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.

  Washington Gladden

  Believe, Perfect, People

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 155. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

  Kiese Laymon

  Thinking, Today, Reckoning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Judging, Done

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• The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.59, Vintage

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• How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

  Alice James

  Vanity, Games, Able

  1889 On suicide. Diary entry, 5 Aug.

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• Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Christian, Strong, Believe

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.222, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Lord has given me to understand the value of at once confessing one's sins after their commission. By so doing we are always in the state of grace.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Grace, Sin, Lord

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• I think now more than ever there's so much available honesty that you can find on the Internet. You can go on to YouTube and find really, really vulnerable, really verité stuff. It's not even verité, it's real! It's people confessing very private things. In a world with "It Gets Better" videos where people are trying to keep themselves alive and speak out to other people and are really brave and courageous.

  James Ponsoldt

  Honesty, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person can ever make. I invited Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life and made a commitment to follow Him. God offers each of us the free gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus by "confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead" (Romans 10:9). It is a wonderful and peaceful feeling to serve a God who loves me and cares about every detail of my life.

  R.A. Dickey

  Jesus, Believe, Commitment

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• Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven. . . Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Giving, Heaven

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• I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

  Lino Rulli

  Couple, Thinking, Catholic

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Sin Of Pride, Born

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• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

  John Wesley

  Land, Enemy, Way

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.461

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• At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1896). “Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v”

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• When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

  Frances Osborne

  Honesty, Eye, Guilt

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• Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Sin, Ashamed, Wrongdoing

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

  Graham Cooke

  Important, Needs, Circumstances

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 10, 2013

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• It is like confessing to a murder.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Murder, Positive Atheism

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