Confession Quotes - Page 20

• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Ideas

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• I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

  John Maeda

  Men, Careers, Simplicity

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• As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Law, Judging

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, East London

  Source: collider.com

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• Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Organization

  Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Virginia, Battle

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• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

  Billy Graham

  Feet, Grace, Bows

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

  J. G. Holland

  Gossip, Malice, Imbecility

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• Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

  Frank McCourt

  Father, Lasts, Moonstruck

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• Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

  Bruce Feiler

  Hate, Book, Earnest

  "5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Interest, Reader

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• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: John Adams". "Spirit", Book by William Edelen, 1989.

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• Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Giving, Tomorrow

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1518, GENERAL PRESS

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• Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Self, Political, Soul

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• Advice is always a confession.

  Andre Maurois

  Advice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Order, Damage

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• A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

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

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• I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.

  Mark Lawson

  Mistake, Yesterday, House

  "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Games, Redemption, Path

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• Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

  John Hay Beith

  Marriage, Intention, Ghastly

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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  Sam Rockwell

  Art, Character, Training

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