A confession has to be part of your new life.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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.
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.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Faith never makes a confession.
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.