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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.
In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
I'm going to start by making a confession. My name's Sajid Javid. And I used to be a banker. No point denying it.
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.