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Confession Quotes
"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."
17
"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."
17
"You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards."
16
"Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause."
11
"My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit."
7
"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment."
6
"If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words."
6
"I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin."
5
"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."
5
"If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest."
5
"I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop."
5
"What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see."
4
"The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization)."
3
"Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp have brought
To Dagon, and advanc'd his praises high among the Heathen round; to God have brought
Dishonor, obloquy, and op'd the mouths
Of Idolists, and Atheists.
The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not
Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.
This only hope relieves me, that the strife
With me hath end."
2
"Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart."
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