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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

People, Church, And Love

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A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.

Christine Schutt

Book, Apology, Sublime

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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.

Vincent Canby

Air, Feelings, Christmas Card

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... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

Robert Ferrar

Doctrine, Satisfaction, Merit

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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

Marie Antoinette

Cake, People, Wife

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Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.

Rudolf Hess

Two, Half, Said

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There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his ‘truths’, as the sun does its light. - Isn’t it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

Pierre Klossowski

Men, Thinking, Light

Pierre Klossowski (2005). “EPZ Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle”, p.2, A&C Black

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On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Kevin DeYoung

Looks, Lasts, Good Enough

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Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date.
1. You're wearing that?
2. Something smells funny.
3. Where's the Tylenol?
4. And to think, I first wanted to date your brother.
5. I have a confession to make…
6. My dad has a suit just like that.
7. That man is hot. Look at him.
8. My ex, may he rot in hell forever…
9. You're going to order that? Seriously?
10. You're how old?

Gena Showalter

Brother, Dad, Men

Gena Showalter (2007). “Animal Instincts”, p.3, HQN Books

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In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

Joseph Brodsky

Want, Almighty, Ends

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The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

Michiko Kakutani

Art, Redemption, Crafts

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Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

John Wycliffe

Christ, Used, Apostles

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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Charles M. Blow

Soul, Swamps, Drains

Charles M. Blow (2014). “Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Believe, Errors, Investing

John Kenneth Galbraith (1995). “A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something.

Arthur Miller

Confused, Struggle, Writing

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Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.

Pope Francis

Jesus, Forgiving, Sacraments

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Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

Pope Francis

Path, Week, Holy

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I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

Father Damien

Doctors, Skills, Ideas

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The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

Adolf Hitler

Party, Religion, Doe

Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.

James A.C. Brown

Fear, Mean, People

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Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

Gerry Spence

Cheer, Hero, House

"Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, September 15, 1998.

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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.

Edmond Rostand

Kissing, Promise, Dots

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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Macaulay Culkin

People, Church, Needs

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How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

Max Nordau

Clever, War, Government

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There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

World, Affair, Steady

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on

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