311 Quotes About Confession
- Author Steven E. Ozment
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It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell—just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later—I wish I'd told him.
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- Author Thomas De Quincey
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Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that “decent drapery” which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.
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- Author Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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If only one day,their worlds could meet,just halfway.She would outplay,the distance rest,blaming the roads,led her astray.But only if,they could meet,just halfway.
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- Author David Levithan
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So what do you have to confess now?"I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this.""What is 'this'?""Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.
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- Author Sarah M. Eden
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The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.
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- Author Anya Seton
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Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Don’t harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
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- Author Katie McGarry
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You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I’m awake and dream at night of my hands on your body. And it sure as hell won’t erase that I’m terrified by how much I like you.
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