Quotes on Confession

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Author: Horatio Alger

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Author: Alison Bechdel

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Author: DeWitt Clinton

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Author: Germaine Greer

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.

Author: Thomas Monaghan

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

Author: Richard Rosen

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Author: Helen Rowland

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Author: Ryan Stiles

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Author: Francois Truffaut

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Author: Earl Warren

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

Author: Daniel Webster