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“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”
Madonna Quotes |
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“Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body”
English Proverb Quotes |
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“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
Daniel Webster Quotes |
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“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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“Open confession is good for the soul”
Scottish Proverb Quotes |
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“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
Fulton J. Sheen Quotes |
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“There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them”
Gerald Brenan Quotes |
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“Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Guildenstern at III, i)
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“Confess yourself to heaven,
Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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“Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;
For to deny each article with oath
Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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“I own the soft impeachment.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes Source: The Rivals (act V, sc. 3)
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“A confession has to be part of your new life.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes |
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“In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.”
Louis Cassels Quotes |
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“Confessed faults are half-mended.”
Scottish Proverb Quotes |
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“Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.”
Maimonides Quotes |
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“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.”
Dorothy Dix Quotes |
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“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”
Joni Mitchell Quotes |
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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.”
Publilius Syrus Quotes |
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“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Saint Augustine Quotes |
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“Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.”
Anatole France Quotes |
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“Open confession is good for the soul.”
Scottish Proverb Quotes |
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