Quotes about confession

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

— W. H. Auden

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

— St. Augustine

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.

— Jack Benny

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

— Book Of Common Prayer

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

— Anita Brookner

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

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

— Dorothy Dix

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

— William Hazlitt

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

— Maimonides

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

— Joni Mitchell

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

— Proverb

He that jokes confesses.

— Italian Proverb

Open confession is good for the soul.

— Scottish Proverb

Confessed faults are half-mended.

— Scottish Proverb

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

— Richard D. Rosen

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

— Publilius Syrus

A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.

— Source Unknown

He who denies all, confesses all.

— Source Unknown

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

— Peter De Vries

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

— Daniel Webster

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

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

A confession has to be part of your new life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein