311 Quotes About Confession
- Author Linnea Sinclair
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She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.To be saved by her love.No more half-truths. No more omissions.
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- Author Akash Mandal
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I must confess, that myheart is like a frozen lake,only pretends to be firm, to shroud its tearful ache.So tread over this heart, as often as you like,but one of these days,if it feels your warmth strike;its cold, thin surfacewill abruptly break asunder,and then it won’t resist from pulling you deep under.
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- Author Diane Setterfield
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It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might yet be said and suffocate it. By the river the air carries the story on a journey: one sentence drifts away and makes way for the next.
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- Author Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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Show me your hidden skeletons and I will show you closets hidden by my monsters.
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- Author Karl Kristian Flores
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I hate this, but it’s true: being with happy people freaks me out,' she said. 'When I see them, all I could think about is how quickly their joy could end. A punch to the face. One phone call. Some hard truth. A shatter of ego. Or a house fire. Maybe there’s something wrong with me. Maybe my brain needs some sort of contrast. I get scared for them. Eggshells who care about things like almond milk. I get jealous actually. I think, 'How could you be that way?
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- Author James K.A. Smith
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According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive "dispositions" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Once I am alive, I still have the chance to live rightly for the rest of my life.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Keep your heart pure.
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- Author Jack Kerouac
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0 the pain of telling these secrets which are so necessary to tell, or why write or live
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