C Quotes
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“Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.”
“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”
“Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.”
“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.”
“Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.”
Source: The Sky Beneath My Feet
“Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.”
“Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline
“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin. We cannot bear to reveal our failures and shortcomings to others. We imagine that we are the only ones who have not stepped onto the high road to heaven. Therefore, we hide ourselves from one another and live in veiled lies and hypocrisy.
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. We know we are not alone in our sin. The fear and pride that cling to us like barnacles cling to others also. We are sinners together. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“Confession is a kind of pride.”
“Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.”
“Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.”
Source: Unity in the work of service: on the occasion of his second pastoral visit to the United States
“Confession is essential to our self-esteem.”
Source: Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).”
“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.”
“Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.”
Source: Another Little Piece
“Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“Confession is necessary as cleansing.”
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.”
“Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.”
Source: In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.
“Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.”
“Confession liberates the sinner's soul from guilt's shadow, and forgiveness grants the victim's heart reprieve from resentment's weight, yet neither can dissolve the eternal imprint of wounds, for scars whisper truths that time alone must ponder.”
“Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.”
“Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.”
“Confession of a bankrupt company’s CEO - "I saw the change coming, and then I ignored it.”
Source: Quantraz
“Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.”
“Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.”
Source: Collected Works
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
“Confession of sin leads to salvation of the soul.”
“Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us”
“confession ran in the family.”
Source: The Bell
“Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.”
Source: Following Christ
“CONFESSION
Sometimes
I feel like the lines of mine
are in the way of every love
that tries to cross the last bridge
I have left leading to my heart.
For I burned every other one
while numbing the wounds
the fire caused -
setting alight to all that is left of me.
I must admit
that I kept on to the match,
long after it burned down
and reached my fingertips.”
“Confession, when given in a state of repentance (being genuinely sorry), is not for the weakhearted. Neither is it weak in what it was designed to do. It requires a personal resolve and humility to voice out loud what you did or didn’t do so that you can become right with God, the offended party, and yourself.”
Source: Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
“Confession without repentance is just bragging.”
“Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a “hand hug.” This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.”
“Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.”
“Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of Confessionalism, beyond psychoanalysis, is a very actual fall from grace. And, at least in America, people of color never occupy that position of grace the way that white people do. So I think that in some very actual ways the confessional mode, strictly speaking, is not possible for non-white writers.”
“Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.”
“Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.”
“Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.”
“Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.”
“Confessions (Sonnet 1034)
Naskar is invincible,
Got no a fear in the world.
Abi is often crippled by fear,
Pushing through with a panicky heart.
Naskar is a pillar of strength,
Beyond all dilemmas and insecurity.
Abi is just an ordinary creature,
Often trapped in bottomless ominosity.
Every time that Abi hits a new low,
Naskar ends up flying to new heights.
Naskar is such a shining beacon,
Because of Abi who burns all night.
Behind every extraordinary Naskar,
there is a clumsy, ordinary Abi.
You only see the light of the sun,
not its combustion agony.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Confesso que eu tenho algumas neuroses que não saem da minha mente”