| Author |
Quotes |
| Anatole France | Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. |
| Dorothy Dix | Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. |
| Joni Mitchell | There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. |
| Louis Cassels | In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are. |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | A confession has to be part of your new life. |
| Maimonides | Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. |
| 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 | It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. |
| Peter De Vries | 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. |
| Publilius Syrus | To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | I own the soft impeachment. |
| Saint Augustine | The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. |
| Scottish Proverb | Confessed faults are half-mended. |
| Scottish Proverb | Open confession is good for the soul. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. |
| William Shakespeare | 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 | 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 | 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. |
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