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

Mohandas Gandhi

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

Mohandas Gandhi

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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

William J. Brennan, Jr.

My whole act is confession.

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

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

Jean Baudrillard

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

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