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confessional ::: a small enclosed stall in which a priest hears confessions. :::

confessional ::: n. --> The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest&

confessionalism ::: n. --> An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

confessionalist ::: n. --> A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

confessionary ::: n. --> A confessional. ::: a. --> Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

confession ::: n. --> Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one&

confessionist ::: n. --> One professing a certain faith.

CONFESSION. ::: Helps to purge the consciousness of ham- pering elements and clears the inner air and makes for a closer and more intimate relation between the Guru and the disciple.

confessional ::: n. --> The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest&

confessionalism ::: n. --> An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

confessionalist ::: n. --> A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.

confessionary ::: n. --> A confessional. ::: a. --> Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.

confession ::: n. --> Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one&

confessionist ::: n. --> One professing a certain faith.

CONFESSION. ::: Helps to purge the consciousness of ham- pering elements and clears the inner air and makes for a closer and more intimate relation between the Guru and the disciple.

confessional ::: a small enclosed stall in which a priest hears confessions. :::

confession. See PĀPADEŚANĀ.

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1:Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. ~ Publilius Syrus,

2:People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

3:The joy of life consists in the exercise of ones energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. ~ Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autobiography ,

4:I insist that in private life men should not admit their passions to be an end, indulging them and so degrading themselves to the level of the other animals, or suppressing them and creating neuroses. I insist that every thought, word and deed should be consciously devoted to the service of the Great Work. 'Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God' ~ Aleister Crowleys, Confessions of Aleister Crowley ,

5:The third operation in any magical ceremony is the oath or proclamation. The Magician, armed and ready, stands in the centre of the Circle, and strikes once upon the bell as if to call the attention of the Universe. He then declares who he is, reciting his magical history by the proclamation of the grades which he has attained, giving the signs and words of those grades. He then states the purpose of the ceremony, and proves that it is necessary to perform it and to succeed in its performance. He then takes an oath before the Lord of the Universe (not before the particular Lord whom he is invoking) as if to call Him to witness the act. He swears solemnly that he will perform it-that nothing shall prevent him from performing it-that he will not leave the operation until it is successfully performed-and once again he strikes upon the bell. Yet, having demonstrated himself in that position at once infinitely lofty and infinitely unimportant, the instrument of destiny, he balances this by the Confession, in which there is again an infinite exaltation harmonised with an infinite humility. He admits himself to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a creature of circumstance utterly dependent-even for the breath of life-upon a series of fortunate accidents. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA ,

6:reading ::: 50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered: Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954) St Augustine - Confessions (400) Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932) Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901) Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976) Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972) GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922) Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001) Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE) Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971) Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century) Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927) Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097) Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923) GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960) Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963) Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951) Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922) Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954) William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955) Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436) J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964) CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942) Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964) Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994) Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989) W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944) Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994) John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998) Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994) Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997) Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976) Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968) Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979) Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970) Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758) Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570) Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994) Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998) Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973) Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998) Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002) Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979) Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000) Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974) Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990) ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition) ,

7:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus - Tragedies4. Sophocles - Tragedies5. Herodotus - Histories6. Euripides - Tragedies7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings9. Aristophanes - Comedies10. Plato - Dialogues11. Aristotle - Works12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid - Elements14.Archimedes - Works15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections16. Cicero - Works17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things18. Virgil - Works19. Horace - Works20. Livy - History of Rome21. Ovid - Works22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion26. Ptolemy - Almagest27. Lucian - Works28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties30. The New Testament31. Plotinus - The Enneads32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine33. The Song of Roland34. The Nibelungenlied35. The Saga of Burnt Njal36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres43. Thomas More - Utopia44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy58. John Milton - Works59. Molière - Comedies60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal69. William Congreve - The Way of the World70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets ~ Mortimer J Adler,

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1:pride.” Job’s Confession ~ Anonymous,

2: Confession Nocturne ~ Émile Nelligan,

3:My books are my confessions. ~ Clive Barker,

4:confession ran in the family. ~ Iris Murdoch,

5:My whole act is confession. ~ Shelley Berman,

6:A work of art is a confession. ~ Albert Camus,

7:Advice is always a confession. ~ Andre Maurois,

8:Do not be afraid of confession! ~ Pope Francis,

9:No confession brings perfection. ~ Oscar Romero,

10:The act of love is a confession. ~ Albert Camus,

11:All art is a kind of confession. ~ James Baldwin,

12:Confession: Nate was intoxicating. ~ Elle Strauss,

13:All art is a kind of confession. ~ James A Baldwin,

14:Acting is a form of confession. ~ Tallulah Bankhead,

15:confessional atmosphere of the dark ~ Danielle Steel,

16:Evil is a confession of inadequacy ~ Stefan Molyneux,

17:CONFESSION WITHOUT CHANGE IS JUST A GAME. ~ Anonymous,

18:Faith never makes a confession. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

19:A confession: I am not a good friend. ~ Victoria Schwab,

20:Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. ~ Anne Sexton,

21:The poem is a confession of faith. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

22:A confession: solitude no longer hurt me. ~ Mario Benedetti,

23:l'invidia è una confessione d'inferiorità ~ Honor de Balzac,

24:A confession : solitude no longer hurt me. ~ Mario Benedetti,

25:I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions. ~ Lena Dunham,

26:All philosophy is a form of confession. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

27:I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard ~ Marilyn Manson,

28:Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. ~ Anatole France,

29:A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. ~ Mary Antin,

30:The act of love, for instance, is a confession. ~ Albert Camus,

31:A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. ~ Charles Simic,

32:Confessions. For whose benefit besides one’s own? ~ Jan Ellison,

33:Confessions. For whose benefit besides one’s own? T ~ Jan Ellison,

34:Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. ~ G K Chesterton,

35:Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator. ~ Phillip Lopate,

36:A confession has to be part of your new life. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,

37:Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry. ~ Lucie Brock Broido,

38:The woman could get a confession faster than a priest. ~ B J Daniels,

39:If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. ~ Yoko Ono,

40:Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. ~ Germaine Greer,

41:they were all sweating like hookers in a confessional, ~ Jill Shalvis,

42:Terror, perhaps, is always a confession of illegitimacy. ~ Martin Amis,

43:Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness ~ Muriel Rukeyser,

44:Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance. ~ Bill Clegg,

45:Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. ~ Mark Buchanan,

46:The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. ~ Andrew Bird,

47:Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. ~ Tom Stoppard,

48:in other words, his story was part boast, part confession. ~ Ben Mezrich,

49:Not exactly the manliest of confessions, but there it is. ~ Lauren Layne,

50:Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God! ~ T B Joshua,

51:Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. ~ Publilius Syrus,

52:The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional. ~ Pope Benedict XVI,

53:There is always something. That is confession’s nature. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,

54:Confession: I’ve wanted to do that since the day that I met you. ~ G L Tomas,

55:Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. ~ Roland Barthes,

56:The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself. ~ J M Coetzee,

57:It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ~ Oscar Wilde,

58:Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost. ~ Edward T Welch,

59:Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

60:but a confession would only clear my conscience and sadden his. ~ Chelsea Field,

61:Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

62:Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

63:Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession. ~ Chris Rock,

64:People would make a much fuller confession to Satan than to God. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,

65:Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession. ~ Billy Graham,

66:A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~ Albert Camus,

67:Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it. ~ Charles M Blow,

68:The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. ~ Ayn Rand,

69:The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ~ Saint Augustine,

70:True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. ~ Socrates,

71:You’re not a knight in shining armor; you’re someone’s confession.” A ~ Dannika Dark,

72:Every Catholic is one good Confession away from potential sainthood. ~ Patrick Madrid,

73:His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent. ~ George Eliot,

74:My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing ~ Bret Easton Ellis,

75:She was a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella. ~ Augusten Burroughs,

76:You don’t write wishes, you write confessions. There’s a difference. ~ Pepper Winters,

77:(Confession? Sometimes I don’t read my texts in a timely manner.) “PEEN! ~ Lauren Rowe,

78:Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ~ Fulton J Sheen,

79:I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. ~ Francis Xavier,

80:Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession. ~ Ellen Hopkins,

81:For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

82:The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional. ~ Lena Dunham,

83:Bad girls are my favorites. They make confession more interesting and fun. ~ Nancee Cain,

84:Confession is good for all of us, but even better for you than for me. ~ John R Erickson,

85:I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession. ~ Melissa Febos,

86:It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret. ~ Colleen Hoover,

87:It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret. ~ Colleen Hoover,

88:This feels like so much more than just a kiss. It feels like a confession. ~ Beth Michele,

89:Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. ~ Craig Ferguson,

90:Make this confession out loud: “I am the righteousness of God in Christ. ~ Kenneth E Hagin,

91:The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire. ~ Paul David Tripp,

92:We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. ~ Criss Jami,

93:Confession is good for the soul, it empties the soul making more space for sin. ~ Trevanian,

94:I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

95:There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ~ Daniel Webster,

96:Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,

97:Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin. ~ Trevanian,

98:I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea. ~ James Baldwin,

99:La letteratura, come tutta l’arte, è la confessione che la vita non basta. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

100:We are each the love of someone's life --- The Confessions of Max Tivoli ~ Andrew Sean Greer,

101:Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. ~ Pope Francis,

102:If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and ~ Saint Augustine,

103:The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,

104:Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships. ~ C D Payne,

105:Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles. ~ John Wycliffe,

106:So it was a two ear confession. Those are the best kind you know. The most reliable. ~ C J Box,

107:written confessions are a non-prejudicial way of telling outsiders what we believe. ~ Anonymous,

108:Bad cops are bad priests', she said. 'All confession, and no absolution. ~ Gregory David Roberts,

109:La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita sola non basta ~ Fernando Pessoa,

110:There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. ~ Bill James,

111:A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work. ~ Pawan Mishra,

112:Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. ~ Frank McCourt,

113:Confession has a “consequence” too—a good consequence! A free and happy heart! ~ Stormie Omartian,

114:It's like finally going to confession only to find out the priest has earplugs in. ~ Jandy Nelson,

115:La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita sola non basta. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

116:Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone. ~ Colleen Hoover,

117:If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? ~ Sarah McLachlan,

118:I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. ~ Kenneth Tynan,

119:Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose. ~ Erika Robuck,

120:when confession and sacrifice are done, it is as if the wrongdoing never occurred. ~ Carlene Havel,

121:Rather than contradicting sola Scriptura, a confession is actually a sound guide to it. ~ Anonymous,

122:Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone. I ~ Colleen Hoover,

123:So this is my Pathetic Loser’s confession: I am Oren Tenning, and I have fallen. Hard. ~ Linda Kage,

124:Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again. ~ Pope Francis,

125:So, this is my Pathetic Loser’s confession: I am Oren Tenning, and I have fallen. Hard. ~ Linda Kage,

126:"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. ~ Matthea Harvey,

127:General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent. ~ Gail Godwin,

128:I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure. ~ Patricia Wentworth,

129:CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun…and live to tell about it the next day. ~ Ronda Thompson,

130:My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

131:The only confession Jolene had ever wrenched from him was that he had cared about her. ~ Erin McCarthy,

132:I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever. ~ Witold Gombrowicz,

133:The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . ~ Italo Svevo,

134:These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say. ~ John Lloyd,

135:The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. ~ Dante Alighieri,

136:Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. ~ Louise Bourgeois,

137:Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves. ~ Stephen King,

138:Every psychology—my own included—has the character of a subjective confession” (1929b, p. 336). ~ Anonymous,

139:Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything. ~ Stephen King,

140:This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession. ~ Siobhan Davis,

141:But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. ~ Anonymous,

142:Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance. ~ Larry Crabb,

143:Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. ~ Bruce Feiler,

144:If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all. ~ Erin Kelly,

145:I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves. ~ Shane Kuhn,

146:The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession. ~ Edward T Welch,

147:People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

148:Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you. ~ Pope Francis,

149:Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine. ~ J I Packer,

150:Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. ~ Michelle M Pillow,

151:True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language. ~ Jodi Picoult,

152:True confession? The reason we don’t talk about race is because we do not speak a common language. ~ Jodi Picoult,

153:Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. ~ Diana Gabaldon,

154:It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty. ~ Colum McCann,

155:It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. ~ Thomas Pynchon,

156:a theological confession is one thing, a practical realization of the truth we confess is quite another. ~ R A Torrey,

157:However, I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves. ~ Shane Kuhn,

158:I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. ~ Stephen Malkmus,

159:With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. "Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,

160:x Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for  y he who promised is faithful. 24And ~ Anonymous,

161:For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ~ Tim LaHaye,

162:God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made. ~ Max Lucado,

163:People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

164:The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ~ Horatio Alger,

165:We used to say that hearing 90 percent of confessions was like being stoned to death with marshmallows! ~ Richard Rohr,

166:Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ~ Karl Marx,

167:I have always been uncomfortable with fragile things, like feelings and confessions. Butterflies, too. ~ Jessica Cluess,

168:Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it. ~ Mortimer J Adler,

169:So what was the good doctor doing at a chapel so late? Seeking counsel? A late-night confessional perhaps? ~ Fiona Paul,

170:A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession. ~ Stephen Dunn,

171:Fri. L. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. ~ William Shakespeare,

172:I MUST make one confession” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one’s neighbours. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

173:It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. ~ Charles Spurgeon,

174:All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins. ~ Anatole France,

175:Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 ~ Beth Moore,

176:Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ~ Dorothy Dix,

177:Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

178:Whoever said confession was good for the soul hadn’t been forced to take one after half a night’s sleep. ~ Sabrina Jeffries,

179:People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

180:The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer. ~ Benedict XVI,

181:The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. ~ Pope Francis,

182:Why me?” Claire asked him. “Fuck if I know.” She blinked. Well, that wasn’t exactly some romantic confession. ~ Cynthia Eden,

183:Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything. ~ Stephen King,

184:I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession]. ~ Lucas Cruikshank,

185:He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors? ~ Daryl Gregory,

186:In Confession, Jesus welcomes us with all our sinfulness, to give us a new heart, capable of loving as he loves. ~ Pope Francis,

187:Niente come una grande confessione d'amore ha il potere di far perdere la testa a una donna. -Cercando te- ~ Jennifer Probst,

188:Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. ~ Leonard Cohen,

189:The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

190:The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become ~ Milan Kundera,

191:FRIAR LAWRENCE Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. ~ William Shakespeare,

192:Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. ~ Adlai Stevenson I,

193:The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. ~ Erica Jong,

194:As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France. ~ Eric Jager,

195:God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions. ~ Martin Luther,

196: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. ~ Ira Levin,

197:Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock. ~ Andy Greenwald,

198:in practice French rule in Syria and Lebanon appeared increasingly arbitrary, confessional, exploitative and corrupt. ~ James Barr,

199:Knowing the KGB would be eager to learn every detail of his work with the CIA, he offered to write a confession. ~ David E Hoffman,

200:I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more. ~ John von Neumann,

201:A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. ~ Erma Bombeck,

202:A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. ~ Jorie Graham,

203:The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God. ~ G C Berkouwer,

204:All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. ~ Anatole France,

205:classic creeds, produced by seasoned Christians, stand the test of time. A confession is a mature, proven set of beliefs. ~ Anonymous,

206:Time is not a good healer. Time is a blank page on which the left behind scribble their regrets and their confessions. ~ Holly Seddon,

207:I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it. ~ Lino Rulli,

208:...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution... ~ John Geddes,

209:The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas,

210:We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

211:A torrent of language, a spring off the near-infinite stream of confessions he had harbored half his life, all of hers. ~ Anthony Doerr,

212:Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. ~ Oscar Wilde,

213:I have a confession to make.121 Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my religion. I ~ Brian D McLaren,

214:A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession. ~ Mary Faustina Kowalska,

215:I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. ~ Carl Jung,

216:Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. ~ Saint Augustine,

217:I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff. ~ John Maeda,

218:I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. ~ Louis Begley,

219:The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. ~ Albert Camus,

220:The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed. ~ Paul Washer,

221:The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion. ~ Pope Francis,

222:Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance. ~ R C Sproul,

223:It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. ~ C S Lewis,

224:She’s heard that confession is good for the soul. But the one person she truly should confess to has gone missing. ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen,

225:My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing. ~ LeCrae,

226:True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. ~ Emil M Cioran,

227:The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. ~ Georgia Harkness,

228:True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. ~ Emile M Cioran,

229:Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can ~ Dominic Savio,

230:He could easily pace twenty miles in a twenty-foot room. He could pace thirty miles in an opera box and fifty in a confessional. ~ Amor Towles,

231:If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,

232:'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. ~ Chip Esten,

233:Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ~ Joni Mitchell,

234:It takes a while for the heat to work in this piece of shit, but when it kicks in, you’ll sweat like a fat whore at confession. ~ Robyn Peterman,

235:When she stepped into that confessional and touched herself right in front of me, she opened a door neither of us can close. Now ~ Clarissa Wild,

236:Bowman's idea of "entirely cooperative" was a man who brought along a certified stenographer to take down his own confession. ~ Richard Stevenson,

237:The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession. ~ Adolf Hitler,

238:Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,

239:Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,

240:Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. ~ Simone de Beauvoir,

241:Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it. ~ Charles Dickens,

242:No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ~ C S Lewis,

243:Therefore, holy brothers, [1] you who share in  r a heavenly calling, consider Jesus,  s the apostle and high priest of our confession, ~ Anonymous,

244:All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air. ~ Helen Hunt,

245:Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12 ~ Beth Moore,

246:People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?" ~ Matthea Harvey,

247:And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness ~ Mia Sheridan,

248:I have a confession to make," I told her. "Go ahead," she said. "I enjoy a good blurting out of secrets as much as the next person. ~ Alan Bradley,

249:Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God. ~ Billy Graham,

250:Through the proof of this service, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ. 2 Corinthians 9:13 ~ Beth Moore,

251:Ain't no way I'm letting her out of this now. Not after that confession. It was as epic as the fucking storm and ten times as unexpected. ~ C M Stunich,

252:Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin. ~ Patti Smith,

253:If even the most emphatic and frequent confession of the lordship of Jesus Christ is not evidence of true conversion, then what is? ~ Paul David Washer,

254:I knew that his confession would be a tremendous relief to him but a burden to me. Such information, once shared, can never be retracted. ~ Karen Essex,

255:I promised no more poetry and I’d rather think of this as a confession: you are still the first person I want to share new things with. ~ Trista Mateer,

256:My usual confessional is a straight Macallan but not before 5 o'clock. Perhaps that's why I try and have my crises in the evening. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

257:Sa cosa diceva Mark Twain? Che un romanzo è la confessione di tutti i delitti del mondo fatta da un uomo che non ne ha mai commesso uno. ~ Stephen King,

258:The validity of our confession of Jesus Christ’s lordship and of our conversion is evidenced by our obedience to the Father’s will. ~ Paul David Washer,

259:What is unhealthy is every wallowing in guilt which does not lead to confession, repentance, faith in Jesus Christ and so forgiveness. ~ John R W Stott,

260:A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. ~ J D Salinger,

261:Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

262:Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. ~ Gregory Maguire,

263:Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God. ~ Pope John Paul II,

264:Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t confess. ~ Jake Adelstein,

265:Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

266:Why do we mumble through rote confessions and then conjure plastic Barbie and Ken smiles as we turn to one another to pass the peace? ~ Rachel Held Evans,

267:Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today. ~ Oliver D Crisp,

268:Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business. ~ Anne Lamott,

269:By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk. ~ Dean Koontz,

270:Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye ~ Jason Letts,

271:I’m making this confession without hope for absolution. One morning, I pretended to go crazy. Perhaps in pretending, I proved myself so. ~ Miguel Syjuco,

272:... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession. ~ George Eliot,

273:Vulnerability minus boundaries is not vulnerability. It’s confession, manipulation, desperation, or shock and awe, but it’s not vulnerability. ~ Bren Brown,

274:You took my heart when you left,” I whispered. He took a slow step forward, his confession cracking in the air. “And I left mine with you. ~ A L Jackson,

275:Confession, apology, and forgiveness, Aunt Beru had been fond of reminding him, were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges. ~ Timothy Zahn,

276:I have a confession to make. I hate voir dire. I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine. ~ Paul Levine,

277:The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. ~ Michel Foucault,

278:A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being. ~ F F Bosworth,

279:Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

280:I told myself this was probably a bad idea, to let him kiss me into a confession. But, I reasoned, if there was ever a way to cave, this was it. ~ Kiera Cass,

281:It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done. ~ Monica Furlong,

282:Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. ~ Georg Simmel,

283:A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness. ~ Phillip Lopate,

284:Confessions are tricky. Many times,as you're confessing something to another person, you discover some new, valuable lesson about yourself. ~ Karrine Steffans,

285:He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. ~ Jack Kerouac,

286:It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,

287:I’ve never liked to call it that,” cut in Thyon—softly, like a confession. “It’s bitter on my tongue. I think of it as the Unseen City instead. ~ Laini Taylor,

288:Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

289:She turned back to watch the action across the street and waited to feel the good feelings she’d imagined her confession would bring. ~ Marybeth Mayhew Whalen,

290:I have a confession,” he said. “Sometimes I offend on purpose. It’s like my smile.” “That’s not an apology.” “Princes don’t apologize. ~ Marie Rutkoski,

291:The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like. ~ Oliver D Crisp,

292:written confessions keep believers from having to reinvent the wheel. Creeds and confessions can put the student at the head of the class in a hurry ~ Anonymous,

293:Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession. ~ Alain de Botton,

294:If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is "YOU ~ Mitch Albom,

295:The minute your functional theology tells you that God is not good, it’s very hard to hold on to the confessional theology that declares he is. ~ Paul David Tripp,

296:The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch. ~ Adam Garcia,

297:Accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. ~ Roger Scruton,

298:There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father. ~ Pope Francis,

299:To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

300:When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie) ~ Sophie Kinsella,

301:St. Augustine, in his "Confessions," makes use of these remarkable words: "Did I not live in another body before entering my mother's womb? ~ William Walker Atkinson,

302:we are not priests. We don’t want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use. ~ Hilary Mantel,

303:Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot. ~ Rudyard Kipling,

304:'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' ~ Benedict Joseph Labre,

305:accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To ~ Roger Scruton,

306:They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. ~ John Steinbeck,

307:When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie) ~ Sophie Kinsella,

308:Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning. ~ Kate Karyus Quinn,

309:Christianity is a confession, not an explanation. We will attempt to explain what we legitimately can, but we will always confess more than we can explain. ~ Brian Zahnd,

310:Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. ~ Isidore of Seville,

311:In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized. ~ William Sargant,

312:I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important. ~ Claudia Cardinale,

313:I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. ~ Giacomo Casanova,

314:People can’t function without forgiveness. It’s why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on. ~ Simon Wood,

315:Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women. ~ Warren Farrell,

316:Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. ~ George Orwell,

317:Just being visible is my biggest confession, so they try to set me at ease by revealing our equality, by dragging out their own less-apparent deformities. ~ Katherine Dunn,

318:having coauthored The Wrong Guys: False Confessions and the Norfolk Four, a book about four U.S. Navy sailors who, under intense police pressure and without ~ Beverly Lowry,

319:How is it, then, that so many in the evangelical church are unaware of their sin and unmarked by confession? It is because they are largely unconverted. ~ Paul David Washer,

320:Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ~ William Hazlitt,

321:She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning to hide love. ~ Jeanette Winterson,

322:We love earthly things that rust and break. God loves heavenly things that last forever. We are overjoyed by our victories. He is overjoyed by our confessions. ~ Max Lucado,

323:They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life. ~ Lev Shestov,

324:Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God. ~ Maximus the Confessor,

325:I took a shower and poured a glass. Confession: I poured the glass first and took it into the shower with me, soaping with one hand, drinking with the other. ~ Melanie Harlow,

326:But there was also something sad and confessional in his face, something weary in his voice, as if he'd had enough of the world, or at least certain parts of it. ~ Mitch Albom,

327:Faith is confession with the tongue and belief with the heart and work with the members of the body. So long as you do not work, you do not find reward. ~ Abu Hamid al Ghazali,

328:Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. ~ Ahmad Shamloo,

329:Although an atheist, Pascal said he would make a deathbed confession to God. If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . . ~ Robert Masello,

330:Augustine is so wholly with me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings. ~ John Calvin,

331:But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,

332:Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue. ~ Cate Marvin,

333:CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period…literally. ~ Ronda Thompson,

334:convinced is the biblical doctrine on the great subject of the inspiration of Scripture. In making this confession and presenting this commentary, we hope to dispel ~ R C Sproul,

335:Our Great High Priest 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — let us hold fast to the confession. ~ Anonymous,

336:Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes. ~ William F Buckley Jr,

337:Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life. ~ Kel Mitchell,

338:All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. ~ James Baldwin,

339:All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. ~ Billy Collins,

340:Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it. ~ Brother Roger,

341:In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it is self-esteem. ~ Marcel Proust,

342:St. Augustine admits in his Confessions: “Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late have I loved you! You were within, but I was without. ~ Richard Rohr,

343:The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself ~ Aidan Chambers,

344:Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer. ~ David Rees,

345:The public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. ~ Leo Tolstoy,

346:There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

347:Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

348:All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. ~ James A Baldwin,

349:I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images. ~ Vija Celmins,

350:Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. ~ George V Higgins,

351:A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

352:A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work. ~ John Irving,

353:She shot me in the arm once.” This confession was said with as much tenderness as if Scarlet had given him a bouquet of wildflowers rather than a bullet wound. Cress ~ Marissa Meyer,

354:She [was] . . . one of those convenient types who don't keep you explaining --minds with doors as numerous as the many-tongued clusters of confessionals at St. Peters. ~ Henry James,

355:And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable. ~ Suzanne Collins,

356:Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners... ~ Meredith Duran,

357:I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of. ~ Camila Cabello,

358:This was supposed to be a question. Not a poem confession or whatever it's become. I just want to know if you would listen with me to the sound of our heartbeats. ~ Elizabeth Acevedo,

359:Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." ~ Tryon Edwards,

360:We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness. ~ Nadia Bolz Weber,

361:I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty. ~ Ben Mendelsohn,

362:Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking. ~ Kenneth E Hagin,

363:A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. I ~ Mahatma Gandhi,

364:Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous,

365:watching the house that was my sanctuary & my hell go up in flames was bittersweet but mostly just sweet. - a confession. ~ Amanda Lovelace,

366:Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark. ~ John Climacus,

367:If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody. ~ Ben Folds,

368:In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions. ~ Joseph Brodsky,

369:One must repeat one’s confession of faith from time to time, actually state what one condones, what one condemns; for the opposing camp isn’t silent either. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

370:Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding. ~ Melissa Febos,

371:What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession. ~ Andr Gide,

372:one. If you wait to become a conqueror before you believe you are one, you are mistaken. You have to confess it first to become one. Faith’s confessions create reality. ~ Kenneth E Hagin,

373:The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,

374:There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,

375:I have a confession to make,” she said. “I did poison you. But it wasn’t in the bottle, it was on it. You were done the moment you took the wrapping off and touched it. ~ Brian D Anderson,

376:I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people. ~ Lance Armstrong,

377:Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

378:Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light. ~ Mary Baker Eddy,

379:Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent. ~ Gina Barreca,

380:The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

381:they talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room’s benevolent hush. ~ Libba Bray,

382:Your boldness confounds me! Shall I conceal your crime, I whom you have deceived by your feigned confession? No, Daughter, no! I will render you a more essential service. I ~ Matthew Lewis,

383:A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. ~ Lemn Sissay,

384:If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life. ~ Walter Brueggemann,

385:I held it together for the rest of the drive home but as soon as Kelsey dropped me off I flopped face down on the couch and sobbed like a reality TV star on confessional day. ~ Molly Harper,

386:Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it. ~ Kresley Cole,

387:The nonnegotiable ethos of a confession may actually force a slacker generation to return to Scripture and steer through some difficult issues. Such may actually help us mature. ~ Anonymous,

388:The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity. ~ George Eliot,

389:And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you’re gasping for air, when you’re begging for pain, when you’re missing something, unable to change the channel. ~ Kris Kidd,

390:A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love. ~ Lawrence Durrell,

391:It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words. ~ Oscar Wilde,

392:all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. ~ Billy Collins,

393:For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism. ~ Saint Augustine,

394:I didn't have a class at the Met," she said, opting to open with a confession, thinking that would make the rest come easier. She could hear her heartbeat punctuating every word. ~ Ingrid D az,

395:Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success. ~ Ludwig von Mises,

396:The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn. ~ Jonathan Renshaw,

397:The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this. ~ Immanuel Kant,

398:I’d always liked our inside jokes the best—they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising. ~ Gillian Flynn,

399:THE TEARS ... streamed down, and I let them flow as freely as they would, making of them a pillow for my heart. On them it rested." -AUGUSTINE, Confessions IX, i z ~ Nicholas Wolterstorff,

400:Babe, with you, I’m more unsure than I’ve ever been.” The confession, uttered with a hint of bewilderment and one-hundred-percent honesty, had the knot loosening in her chest. ~ Jill Shalvis,

401:It was him taught Idi Amin’s lads how to extract voluntary confessions with the aid of an electric cattle-prod. Our chum likes them English and he likes them with a dirty past. He ~ John le Carr,

402:Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service. ~ Diana Butler Bass,

403:I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning. ~ Kiese Laymon,

404:If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom’s specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. ~ C S Lewis,

405:No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well. ~ Oliver D Crisp,

406:Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

407:I would like to say that I was inspired to write Shiver by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here’s my true confession. I wrote Shiver because I like to make people cry. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

408:La confessione che chiama in causa l'ascoltatore è, come diciamo nel cricket, un demonio di palla da giocare. Se la rifiuti offendi chi si confessa, se l'accetti ammetti la tua colpa. ~ Mohsin Hamid,

409:Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject. ~ Lactantius,

410:Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem. ~ P M Forni,

411:Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus. ~ Peter Sagal,

412:We will never make it under our own stem. Having made this connection, Augustine falls apart. What he describes at this point in the "Confessions" is a full-scale emotional breakdown. ~ Thomas Cahill,

413:Just as truly as the Confessions are the autobiography of St. Augustine, The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,

414:Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth. ~ Rachel Caine,

415:They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other. ~ Emile Zola,

416:From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose. ~ Michel de Montaigne,

417:It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of ~ Louis Pasteur,

418:I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

419:Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former; the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man. ~ Wilhelm Reich,

420:People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done. ~ Macaulay Culkin,

421:The house I was leaving was much unlike the one across town. It was smaller, cozier, filled with music and laughter and late-night confessions whispered quietly into beige cotton sheets. ~ Kandi Steiner,

422:Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound. ~ John Irving,

423:Somehow, Thorne’s inability to talk about his attraction to Cress spoke so much louder than an outright confession. After all, he had no trouble making suggestive commentary about Cinder. ~ Marissa Meyer,

424:You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven. ~ Sarah Silverman,

425:He knew he had changed because when presently he took confession from a woman who had been using contraceptives and whose husband had left her, he did not equate the sin with the consequence. ~ Fay Weldon,

426:...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office. ~ Joseph J Ellis,

427:Late night, and like a medal in the sky The harvest moon was beaming down, And, like a river, the solemnity Of night arranged on the sleeping town. - Confession ~ Charles Baudelaire,

428:My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded a guess. Father S signed. "I met Eleanor. ~ Tiffany Reisz,

429:Confession: this book takes place in the summer mainly because I was really hating on winter, and I was tired of being cold. Oh, and I wanted to write a sweaty, oil-streaked, shirtless Cal. ~ Megan Erickson,

430:Pascal’s wager, to her mind: Although an atheist, Pascal said he would make a deathbed confession to God. If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . . ~ Robert Masello,

431:"The goal of treatment by catharsis is full confession -- no merely intellectual acknowledgement of the facts, but their confirmation by the heart and the actual release of suppressed emotions." ~ Carl Jung,

432:I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again! ~ Mercedes McCambridge,

433:On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy. ~ Kevin DeYoung,

434:The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. ~ Oliver D Crisp,

435:The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. ~ William Hazlitt,

436:You won't tell?" "I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord, girl, don't look so mortified. There's not actually a box. ~ Jessica Khoury,

437:I have a confession." "Oh?" "I can't get you off my mind." His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the nape of her neck. He was saying too much. ~ Ted DekkerThomas to Chelise ~ Ted Dekker,

438:We have another confession from Dare Kattalakis. Going once, going twice…are there any more confessions in the room? Anyone else want to admit to shooting a lion? Didn’t think so. (Savitar) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

439:I will say this.” Quinn held me with his eyes, his expression increasing in severity as though hovering on the precipice of a meaningful confession. “You make me want to be less of an asshole.” My ~ Penny Reid,

440:A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.      The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ~ Albert Camus,

441:And what if I told you that even in spite of my confessions—be they funny, embarrassing, painful, or gross—I am at peace with myself? That I love who I am even when I do things I’m not proud of? ~ Rachel Hollis,

442:But the surest sign that his confession had been good and that he had had sincere sorrow for his sin was, he knew, the amendment of his life. —I have amended my life, have I not? he asked himself. ~ James Joyce,

443:I start to pull back, but he hugs me tighter. “You love me. You admitted it.” “I do love you.” His body trembles in response, as if he can’t contain his emotions at my confession. ~ A G Howard,

444:The Romans say, 'You must', the Protestant Nonconformists say, 'You must not', the Catholic Church of England says, 'You may.' [regarding the practice of confession; Overture to Death, chapter 17] ~ Ngaio Marsh,

445:While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility. ~ Ludwig Feuerbach,

446:Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

447:Despite the chronic shortages of almost every good and commodity, there was no shortage of paper, since everyone in the neighborhood was required to write confessions on a periodic basis. Even ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,

448:A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

449:Horst…’ He lowered his voice, ashamed. ‘I’ve done things since then. Things you don’t know about.’ The confession almost choked him, but somehow he forced the words out. ‘I’ve done good things. ~ Jonathan L Howard,

450:it is no less since this same Confession of Faith was first subscribed and sworn to. And it has been still in use yearly to be subscribed and sworn to in some parts, among some in this land, to this day. ~ Various,

451:When most Christians think apologetics training, they think philosophy, logic, and debate. However, the key tools for training the expository apologist are creeds, confessions and catechisms. ~ Voddie T Baucham Jr,

452:Love is not based on the willingness to listen, to understand problems of others, or to tolerate their otherness. Love is based on the mutuality of the confession of our total self to each other. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,

453:Salvation, then, is a movement from one realm into another realm, from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and the confession captures this idea when it speaks of engrafting into Christ. ~ R C Sproul,

454:To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. ~ Shane Claiborne,

455:A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings. ~ Nelson Algren,

456:Even his I love you's," she said, "were like tiny daggers, like little needles or safety pins. Beware of a man who says he loves you but is incapable of a passionate confession; of melting into a sob. ~ Lorrie Moore,

457:In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

458:In this way the godly are filled with the Holy Spirit, so that they cannot keep from breaking forth into thanksgiving, confession, glorifying God, and teaching and proclaiming the Word of the Gospel. ~ Martin Luther,

459:PSICOLOGIA DE CONFESSIONARI. —Tots els primers pecats tenen, com el d'Eva, un mateix mòbil: la curiositat. El segon pecat —la repetició del primer— es fa per orgull. Després, ja tot és qüestió d'hàbit. ~ Joan Fuster,

460:There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastating powers of deduction, I wished there had been two of me so I could have patted myself in the back. ~ Paul Auster,

461:These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything she could give a man if he was brave enough to accept. Kiss by kiss, she was baring herself to the soul. ~ Tessa Dare,

462:They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ~ Ellis Peters,

463:One reform that could help to eliminate false confessions would be to make the videotaping of interrogations compulsory. This would undermine any incentive to bully or mislead suspects into confessions. ~ Matthew Syed,

464:When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ~ Hannah Arendt,

465:But sometimes one hears an Etiquette-Buster’s confession that rings true: “You make me feel guilty.” I’m not going to bother, this argument goes, so we need to lower the standard so I don’t look bad. On ~ Judith Martin,

466:Claire, I don’t want to lose that look. I promise, I’ll never demand it again...I don’t want that. I want what I have today. I’m concerned that, when all my confessions are out—it’ll be gone. ---Anthony ~ Aleatha Romig,

467:It was here in the darkness of night and warmth of my bed that I made my confession, inside myself and silently to her.  I loved her.  It was too fast, too rushed, too new, but I didn’t care.  I loved her. ~ Lila Felix,

468:Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. ~ Erik Erikson,

469:Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ~ Hannah Arendt,

470:All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. All of it, the literal and the fanciful. ~ James Baldwin,

471:Oh my God, she’d kissed him! She’d stuck her tongue inside a creature from hell. Oh jeez, this would sound great in confession. Say two Hail Marys and avoid further contact with the spawn of the devil. ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,

472:The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it. ~ Tori Amos,

473:You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here’s what we all need to say: “I am not a grace graduate. ~ Paul David Tripp,

474:How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? —how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,

475:OTHELLO With her? IAGO With her, on her, what you will. OTHELLO Lie with her! lie on her!—We say lie on her when they belie her.—Lie with her! that’s fulsome.—Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief!— ~ William Shakespeare,

476:Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. ~ C S Lewis,

477:They were all sufferers in their despicable pain, every one of them, and what right did he have to laugh at the woman whose husband was pouring his heart out to him, a man in sincere confession to a fellowman? ~ Yiyun Li,

478:A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving. ~ Edmond Rostand,

479:I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash me thoroughly, and I knew it not. —The Confessions of Blessed Augustine ~ Damascene Christensen,

480:When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!" ~ Ayn Rand,

481:Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another. ~ Martin Luther,

482:Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. ~ Virginia Woolf,

483:Until all titles are taken away Events are finally obscure forever You wake and wonder Whose case history you composed As your confessions are filed In the dialect Of bureaux and electrons ~ Thomas Merton,

484:What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky,

485:And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton. ~ Henry James,

486:Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas,

487:Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there. ~ David Jeremiah,

488:Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

489:This tendency to confession and contrition seems peculiar to all the Americans I've ever known, as if they've somehow become acculturated to disbosoming themselves along with learning to salute their flag. ~ Elizabeth George,

490:You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross…the bread and wine…the confessional…only symbols. Without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes. ~ Stephen King,

491: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,

492:True confession: My dad wouldn’t leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that’s like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon. ~ Deborah Raney,

493:Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For ... faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another. ~ Martin Luther,

494:God will help us - said the holy man. - But first let us understand the reason for these pains. I suggest Your Majesty confesses now, for confession makes men face up to their problems, and liberates much guilt. ~ Paulo Coelho,

495:Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience. ~ Alanis Morissette,

496:Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what He'd been drinking the day he went and made a twilight zone of a disaster like me. ~ Patrick McCabe,

497:It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo. ~ Raymond Chandler,

498:Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field. ~ Lou Holtz,

499:... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it. ~ Margaret Deland,

500:I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,

--- IN CHAPTERS (in Dictionaries, in Quotes, in Chapters)

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   3 Occultism
   1 Philosophy
   1 Christianity


   5 The Mother
   4 Sri Aurobindo
   3 Saint Teresa of Avila
   3 Aleister Crowley


   6 The Secret Doctrine
   5 The Mothers Agenda
   3 Liber ABA
   2 The Way of Perfection
   2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   2 The Bible
   2 Letters On Yoga II
   2 Dark Night of the Soul
   2 Aion

02.11_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Mind, #Savitri, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Her deep designs which from herself she had veiled   Bowed self-revealed in their Confessional.   For the birth and death of the worlds they fixed a date,

1.02_-_Of_certain_spiritual_imperfections_which_beginners_have_with_respect_to_the_habit_of_pride., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity      4. Many such persons desire to be the favourites of their confessors and to become intimate with them, as a result of which there beset them continual occasions of envy and disquiet.26 They are too much embarrassed to confess their sins nakedly, lest their confessors should think less of them, so they palliate them and make them appear less evil, and thus it is to excuse themselves rather than to accuse themselves that they go to Confession. And sometimes they seek another confessor to tell the wrongs that they have done, so that their own confessor shall think they have done nothing wrong at all, but only good; and thus they always take pleasure in telling him what is good, and sometimes in such terms as make it appear to be greater than it is rather than less, desiring that he may think them to be good, when it would be greater humility in them, as we shall say, to depreciate it, and to desire that neither he nor anyone else should consider them of account.

1.02_-_On_the_Service_of_the_Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #C. G. Jung, #Psychology      20). The reference is to Augustine's Confessions (400CE), a devotional work written when he was forty-five years old, in which he narrates his conversion to Christianity in an autobiographical form (Confessions, tr. H. Chadwick [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991]). The Confessions are addressed to God, and recount the years of his wandering from God and the manner of his return. Echoing this in the opening sections of Liber Novus, Jung addresses his soul and recounts the years of his wandering away from her, and the manner of his return. In his published works,   Jung frequently cited Augustine, and referred to his Confessions several times in Transformations and Symbols of the Libido.

1.06_-_Of_imperfections_with_respect_to_spiritual_gluttony., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity      4. There are others, again, who, because of this gluttony, know so little of their own unworthiness and misery and have thrust so far from them the loving fear and reverence which they owe to the greatness of God, that they hesitate not to insist continually that their confessors shall allow them to communicate often. And, what is worse, they frequently dare to communicate without the leave and consent44 of the minister and steward of Christ, merely acting on their own opinion, and contriving to conceal the truth from him. And for this reason, because they desire to communicate continually, they make their Confessions carelessly,45 being more eager to eat than to eat cleanly and perfectly, although it would be healthier and holier for them had they the contrary inclination and begged their confessors not to command them to approach the altar so frequently: between these two extremes, however, the better way is that of humble resignation. But the boldness referred to is46 a thing that does great harm, and men may fear to be punished for such temerity.

1.2.07_-_Surrender, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The help can only be offered, not imposed. Silence, absence of frank Confession, means a desire in the vital to go its own way.

1.25_-_The_Knot_of_Matter, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   7:For the second fundamental opposition that Matter offers to Spirit, is this that it is the culmination of bondage to mechanic Law and opposes to all that seeks to liberate itself a colossal Inertia. Not that Matter itself is inert; it is rather an infinite motion, an inconceivable force, a limitless action, whose grandiose movements are a subject for our constant admiration. But while Spirit is free, master of itself and its works, not bound by them, creator of law and not its subject, this giant Matter is rigidly chained by a fixed and mechanical Law which is imposed on it, which it does not understand nor has ever conceived but works out inconsciently as a machine works and knows not who created it, by what process or to what end. And when Life awakes and seeks to impose itself on physical form and material force and to use all things at its own will and for its own need, when Mind awakes and seeks to know the who, the why, the how of itself and all things and above all to use its knowledge for the imposition of its own freer law and self-guiding action upon things, material Nature seems to yield, even to approve and aid, though after a struggle, reluctantly and only up to a certain point. But beyond that point it presents an obstinate inertia, obstruction, negation and even persuades Life and Mind that they cannot go farther, cannot pursue to the end their partial victory. Life strives to enlarge and prolong itself and succeeds; but when it seeks utter wideness and immortality, it meets the iron obstruction of Matter and finds itself bound to narrowness and death. Mind seeks to aid life and to fulfil its own impulse to embrace all knowledge, to become all light, to possess truth and be truth, to enforce love and joy and be love and joy; but always there is the deviation and error and grossness of the material life-instincts and the denial and obstruction of the material sense and the physical instruments. Error ever pursues its knowledge, darkness is inseparably the companion and background of its light; truth is successfully sought and yet, when grasped, it ceases to be truth and the quest has to continue; love is there but it cannot satisfy itself, joy is there but it cannot justify itself, and each of them drags as if its chain or casts as if its shadow its own opposites, anger and hatred and indifference, satiety and grief and pain. The inertia with which Matter responds to the demands of the Mind and Life, prevents the conquest of the Ignorance and of the brute Force that is the power of the Ignorance.   8:And when we seek to know why this is so, we see that the success of this inertia and obstruction is due to a third power of Matter; for the third fundamental opposition which Matter offers to Spirit is this that it is the culmination of the principle of division and struggle. Indivisible indeed in reality, divisibility is its whole basis of action from which it seems forbidden ever to depart; for its only two methods of union are either the aggregation of units or an assimilation which involves the destruction of one unit by another; and both of these methods of union are a Confession of eternal division, since even the first associates rather than unifies and by its very principle admits the constant possibility and therefore the ultimate necessity of dissociation, of dissolution. Both methods repose on death, one as a means, the other as a condition of life. And both presuppose as the condition of world-existence a constant struggle of the divided units with each other, each striving to maintain itself, to maintain its associations, to compel or destroy what resists it, to gather in and devour others as its food, but itself moved to revolt against and flee from compulsion, destruction and assimilation by devouring. When the vital principle manifests its activities in Matter, it finds there this basis only for all its activities and is compelled to bow itself to the yoke; it has to accept the law of death, desire and limitation and that constant struggle to devour, possess, dominate which we have seen to be the first aspect of Life. And when the mental principle manifests in Matter, it has to accept from the mould and material in which it works the same principle of limitation, of seeking without secure finding, the same constant association and dissociation of its gains and of the constituents of its works, so that the knowledge gained by man, the mental being, seems never to be final or free from doubt and denial and all his labour seems condemned to move in a rhythm of action and reaction and of making and unmaking, in cycles of creation and brief preservation and long destruction with no certain and assured progress.   9:Especially and most fatally, the ignorance, inertia and division of Matter impose on the vital and mental existence emerging in it the law of pain and suffering and the unrest of dissatisfaction with its status of division, inertia and ignorance. Ignorance would indeed bring no pain of dissatisfaction if the mental consciousness were entirely ignorant, if it could halt satisfied in some shell of custom, unaware of its own ignorance or of the infinite ocean of consciousness and knowledge by which it lives surrounded; but precisely it is to this that the emerging consciousness in Matter awakes, first, to its ignorance of the world in which it lives and which it has to know and master in order to be happy, secondly, to the ultimate barrenness and limitation of this knowledge, to the meagreness and insecurity of the power and happiness it brings and to the awareness of an infinite consciousness, knowledge, true being in which alone is to be found a victorious and infinite happiness. Nor would the obstruction of inertia bring with it unrest and dissatisfaction if the vital sentience emerging in Matter were entirely inert, if it were kept satisfied with its own half-conscient limited existence, unaware of the infinite power and immortal existence in which it lives as part of and yet separated from it, or if it had nothing within driving it towards the effort really to participate in that infinity and immortality. But this is precisely what all life is driven to feel and seek from the first, its insecurity and the need and struggle for persistence, for self-preservation; it awakes in the end to the limitation of its existence and begins to feel the impulsion towards largeness and persistence, towards the infinite and the eternal.

1.4.03_-_The_Guru, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Confession helps to purge the consciousness of hampering elements and it clears the inner air and makes for a closer and more intimate and effective relation between the Guru and the disciple.

2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   stuffed into their heads, what they have laid _on the lips of their   Master_: quite a host of Confessions from "beautiful souls."--

2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Rejection of wrong movements, frank Confession of defects are not only not incompatible, but helpful to it; but this attitude makes the rejection, the Confession easy, spontaneous, entirely complete and sincere and effective. That is the experience of all who have consented to take this attitude.

2.3.06_-_The_Mind, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      1 In St. Augustine's Confessions 8.9.21. - Ed.

3.09_-_Of_Silence_and_Secrecy, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   mentions his work as a laboratory assistant under Professor Hughes in 1892 briefly   in Confessions, cap. 9 of Symonds & Grant edition.]   3. [Lat., approx third thing.]

3.12_-_Of_the_Bloody_Sacrifice, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   the original Equinox publication of Liber 418, but described in somewhat cryptic   terms in Confessions and The Temple of Solomon the King in Equinox I (10).]   4. P.S. With the happiest results. P.

3.16.1_-_Of_the_Oath, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   infinitely lofty and infinitely unimportant, the instrument of destiny,   he balances this by the Confession, in which there is again an infinite   exaltation harmonised with an infinite humility. He admits himself   --   creature of circumstance utterly dependenteven for the breath of   lifeupon a series of fortunate accidents. He makes this Confession [124]   prostrate2 before the altar in agony and bloody sweat. He trembles

3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   etc. Sayana thinks that kTA dAf   m is a Confession of incompetence.   This is possible but not necessary. The question may simply   --   children of mid-air, no one situated in the cave was able to get.   This rendering is merely a Confession that Sayana could   make nothing of the verse and may be dismissed without comment.

4.03_-_Prayer_of_Quiet, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity   2.: The King, Who holds His court within it, sees their good will, and out of His great mercy desires them to return to Him. Like a good Shepherd, He plays so sweetly on His pipe, that although scarcely hearing it they recognize His call and no longer wander, but return, like lost sheep, to the mansions. So strong is this Pastor's power over His flock, that they abandon the worldly cares which misled them and re-enter the castle.   3.: I think I never put this matter so clearly before. To seek God within ourselves avails us far more than to look for Him amongst creatures; Saint Augustine tells us how he found the Almighty within his own soul, after having long sought for Him elsewhere.28' This recollection helps us greatly when God bestows it upon us. But do not fancy you can gain it by thinking of God dwelling within you, or by imagining Him as present in your soul: this is a good practice and an excellent kind of meditation, for it is founded on the fact that God resides within us;29' it is not, however, the prayer of recollection, for by the divine assistance less labour in entering within oneself than in rising above oneself and therefore it appears to me that when the soul is ready and fit for either, you ought to do the former, because the other will follow without any effort, and will be all the more pure and spiritual; however, follow what course your soul prefers as this will bring you more grace and benefit,' (Tr. ix, ch, viii). Some editors of the Interior Castle think that St. Teresa refers to the following passage taken from the Confessions of St. Augustine: 'Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, ever ancient yet ever new! too late have I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within me and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee, and, deformed as I was, I pursued the beauties that Thou hast made. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee. Those things kept me far from Thee, which, unless they were in Thee, could have had no being' (St. Augustine's Confessions, bk. x, ch. xxvii.). The Confessions of St. Augustine were first translated into Spanish by Sebastian Toscano, a Portuguese Augustinian. This edition, which was published at Salamanca in 1554, was the one used by St. Teresa. St. Teresa quotes a passage which occurs in a pious book entitled Soliloquia, and erroneously attributed to St. Augustine: 'I have gone about the streets and the broad ways of the city of this world seeking Thee, but have not found Thee for I was wrong in seeking without for what was within.' (ch. xxxi.) This treatise which is also quoted by St. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, stanza i. 7, Ascent of Mount Carmel, bk. i. ch. v. 1, appeared in a Spanish translation at Valladolid in 1515, at Medina del Campo in 1553, and at Toledo in 1565. every one can practise it, but what I mean is quite a different thing. Sometimes, before they have begun to think of God, the powers of the soul find themselves within the castle. I know not by what means they entered, nor how they heard the Shepherd's pipe; the ears perceived no sound but the soul is keenly conscious of a delicious sense of recollection experienced by those who enjoy this favour, which I cannot describe more clearly.   4.: I think I read somewhere30 that the soul is then like a tortoise or sea-urchin, which retreats into itself. Those who said this no doubt understood what they were talking about; but these creatures can withdraw into themselves at will, while here it is not in our power to retire into ourselves, unless God gives us the grace. In my opinion, His Majesty only bestows this favour on those who have renounced the world, in desire at least, if their state of life does not permit their doing so in fact. He thus specially calls them to devote themselves to spiritual things; if they allow Him power to at freely He will bestow still greater graces on those whom He thus begins calling to a higher life. Those who enjoy this recollection should thank God fervently: it is of the highest importance for them to realize the value of this favour, gratitude for which would prepare them to receive still more signal graces. Some books advise that as a preparation for hearing what our Lord may say to us we should keep our minds at rest, waiting to see what He will work in our souls.31' But unless His Majesty has begun to suspend our faculties, I cannot understand how we are to stop thinking, without doing ourselves more harm than good. This point has been much debated by those learned in spiritual matters; I confess my want of humility in having been unable to yield to their opinion.32

6.08_-_Intellectual_Visions, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity      10. I contend, as I always shall, that if the soul reaps the effects described from these divine graces, although God may withdraw these special favours, His Majesty will turn all things to its advantage; even should He permit the devil to deceive it at any time, the evil spirit will only reap his own confusion. Therefore, as I told you, daughters, none of you who are led by this way need feel alarm. Fear is good and we should be cautious and not overconfident, for if such favours made you careless, it would prove they were not from God as they did not leave the results I described. It would be well at first to tell your case, under the seal of Confession, to a thoroughly qualified theologian (for that is the source whence we must obtain light) or to some highly spiritual person. If your confessor is not very spiritual, a good theologian would be preferable;145 best of all, one who unites both qualities.146 Do not be disturbed if he calls it mere fancy; if it is, it can neither harm nor benefit your soul much. Recommend yourself to the divine Majesty and beg Him not to allow you to be misled.

Aeneid, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   the Gnosian: he hears men's crimes and then   chastises and compels Confession for   those guilts that anyone, rejoicing, hid

Agenda_Vol_10, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Yes, (laughing) I worked it out!   As for me, when F told me that "Confession" of his, something came just then, I concentrated, and I   had F. say to him that I had done what's necessary [for him to be cured], that now he only had to rest.

Agenda_Vol_2, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   magnificent!). I remember I was painting - they had let me settle down in a corner to paint - and   nearby there was a... (what do they call it?)... a Confessional. And a poor woman was kneeling there in   distress - with such a dreadful sense of sin! So piteous! She wept and wept. Then I saw the priest

Agenda_Vol_4, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Another time, when I was younger, I was in Italy, in Venice, painting in a corner of St. Mark's   Cathedral (a marvelous place of great beauty), and I happened to be sitting right next to a Confessional.   One day, as I sat there painting, I saw the priest arrive and enter the Confessional - that man...   completely black, tall, thin, the very face of wickedness and hardness: a pitiless wickedness. He

Agenda_Vol_8, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   If you have faith, you will have it. If the critical mind is stronger, it will be slightly delayed, maybe.   There, now I've made my Confession!   It's a still unmanifested supramental light - with the first shock of contact, you will see.   --   is...."   But all those who were baptized and went for a time to Confession are part of a whole, an inner,   psychological entity, and it's VERY difficult to break free from it; they are bound to a whole - there   --   the more recent religions, too - the strongest. And when you are baptized, you are bound. If you don't   go to mass and have never been to Confession, with a little vital energy you can get out of it, but those   who have gone to Confession - especially Confession - and when you take communion, when you are   given Christ to eat (another frightful thing)...   --   had remained very Christian: she tried to keep the two going side by side. Here, naturally, that gave her   inner difficulties, and one day, without really knowing why or how, she went to Confession - and   everything collapsed. She was in despair, collapsed. I told her, "It's better for you to go." And she went.

Agenda_Vol_9, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga      I can't speak.... (Mother coughs) Z has made a "Confession" to me and has asked me some questions. I   intended to reply to her today, but today I don't have any voice. If you'd like to read it... (Mother holds

Aion_-_Part_13+, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology      . The Confessions: Books I-X. Translated by F. J. Sheed. Lon-   don, 1951. (Original: Confessiones. See Migne, P.L., vol. 32, cols.   659-868.)

Aion_-_Part_1+, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   logical image of wholeness. My reader should never forget, how-   ever, that I am not making a Confession of faith or writing a   tendentious tract, but am simply considering how certain   --   am far from cherishing any missionary intentions, I must ex-   pressly emphasize that I am not concerned here with Confessions   of faith but with proven scientific facts. If one inclines to regard   --   robes. 39 Christ is not only a fisher but the fish that is "eucha-   ristically" eaten. 40 Augustine says in his Confessions: "But [the   earth] eats the fish that was drawn from the deep, at the table   --      9 Confessions, Sheed trans., p. 275. 10 Cf. Goodenough, V, pp. 51ft.

BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy      [[Vol. 2, Page]] 423 THE "BUDDHAS OF Confession."      --   THE MS. from which these additional explanations are taken belongs to the group called   "Tongshaktchi Sangye Songa," or the Records of the "Thirty-five Buddhas of Confession," as they are   exoterically called. These personages, however, though called in the Northern Buddhist religion

BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   human form as to have justified the epithet of anthropomorphic being conferred on them. . . . But all   investigation at present only leads human intelligence to a Confession of its insufficiency; and nowhere   is caution more to be advocated, nowhere is premature judgment more to be deprecated than in the   --   stupendous revelation!   *** A valuable Confession, this. Only it makes the attempt to trace the descent of Consciousness in   man as well as of his physical body from Bathybius Haeckelii still more humorous and empirical, in   --   figures when they do give any, for with them it is all either millions or simply thousands of years!   That which is said may be strengthened by the Confessions made by themselves and the synopsis of it,   found in that "Circle of Sciences," the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which shows the mean accepted in   --      [[Vol. 2, Page]] 725 STRANGE ConfessionS OF SCIENCE.      --   pre-historic margin allowed by timid and ever-cautious history. Yet there are men of science who are   almost of our way of thinking. From the brave Confession of the Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg, who   says that: -- "Traditions, whose traces recur in Mexico, in Central America, in Peru, and in Bolivia,

BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   other hand how disfigured it has been later on by Christians in Europe, is seen from the remarks and   unconscious Confessions made by de St. Marc, in his Preface and letter to the Bishop of Ayre, in 1578.   Therein, the whole cycle of transformations from a Pantheistic and Egyptian into a mystic Roman

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   misuse of races even so "vastly superior" to themselves.   Owing to the expressed regrets and numerous Confessions of almost every one of the Orientalists (See   Max Muller's Lectures for example) the public may feel sufficiently sure (a) that the students of   --   unnoticed, while, on the other hand, they could only be partially answered. (2) This position   notwithstanding, the Confession that "half a loaf is better than no bread" was but too often   misunderstood and hardly appreciated as it ought to have been. As a result thereof gratuitous

BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   "Force-Matter," which is their Unknown God. And how unknown it is may be inferred from the many   Confessions of the most eminent physicists and biologists, with Faraday at their head. Not only, he   said, could he never presume to pronounce whether Force was a property or function of Matter, but he   --      * This ominous Confession was made, we believe, at a Scientific Congress at Swansea. Faraday held a   similar opinion, however, as stated by Tyndall: "What do we know of the atom apart from its force?   --   and rulers of those groupings of Monads and Atoms. But this would lead us too far. Let us be content   with finding the Confession of the fact that "this deviation from absolute homogeneity should mark the   constitution of these molecules or aggregations of matter which we designate elements and will   --   take their stand, not on any attribute of the things to be defined, but on the limitations of human power:   they are Confessions of intellectual impotence."   ** And the lecturer quotes Sir George Airy, who says (in Faraday's Life and Letters Vol. II., p. 354),   --   entities believed in by the Kabalists and Christians -- we turn to the atomical theory of evolution, the   occult teachings are still found corroborated by exact Science and its Confessions, as far, at least, as   regards the supposed "simple" elements, now suddenly   --   principle?"*   Do the men of science deny all these charges? Not at all, for here is a Confession of Tyndall, which   shows how powerless is science, even over the world of matter.

BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   destroy (magically) the whole race, his grandsire, Vasishta, says a few extremely suggestive words to   him. He shows the irate Sage, on his own Confession, that there is Evil and Karma, but no "evil   spirits." "Let thy wrath be appeased," he says. "The Rakshasas are not culpable; thy father's death was   --      [[Vol. 1, Page]] 465 A Confession OF SCIENCE.

CHAPTER_26_-_Continues_the_description_of_a_method_for_recollecting_the, #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity   our understanding how, God may give us everything at once: if we do this, as I have said, we shall   pray as we ought. As you know, the first things must be examination of conscience, Confession of   sin and the signing of yourself with the Cross. Then, daughter, as you are alone, you must look for

CHAPTER_27_-_Describes_the_great_love_shown_us_by_the_Lord_in_the_first_words, #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity   O good Jesus! How clearly hast Thou shown that Thou art One with Him and that Thy will is   His and His is Thine! How open a Confession is this, my Lord! What is this love that Thou hast for   us? Thou didst deceive the devil, and conceal from him that Thou art the Son of God, but Thy great

COSA_BOOK_I, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   object:COSA BOOK I   class:The Confessions of Saint Augustine   class:chapter

Evening_Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Sri Aurobindo: That is true. His autobiography will be a classical book in a line with the Confessions of Rousseau and St. Augustine. But the question is whether his ideal is the Truth. That is to say, we must know whether we are on the right path when we advocate an ethical solution as final.      --      Disciple: But the Confessions of the generals were dramatic.

Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism    Substance of Thee be Two, and not One? And herein is the Need of the    Confession of a pure Heart, as is written in the Book of the Dead.    DE CONFORMITATE MAGI. (On the Conformity of the Magician)   --    DE SUA DEBILITATE. (On His Frailty)    Listen attentively, my Son, while I with heavy Heart make Confession to    thee of mine own Frailty. Thou knowest that I made Renunciation of my

Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism    thirst of destruction, and its final aim is suicide. The murderer of    Elisabide, on his own Confession, not only felt the savage need of    killing his relations and friends, but he even wished, had it been

Magick_Without_Tears_(text), #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      This plaint of yours tails off and perks up in so doing with Confession of Ambition, and considerations of what you must leave over to your next life. Very right! but all that is covered by your general programme. It is proper to assimilate these ideas with the fundamental structure of your mind: "Perhaps I had better leave 'The Life and opinion of Battling Bill, the Ballarat Bruiser' till, shall we say, six incarnations ahead" But perhaps you have acquired that already.      --      [The following is from Vol. 4 of The Confessions, pp. 369 - 371.[101]]      --      [The following is from Vol. 4 of The Confessions, pp. 590 - 598.[103]]      --      [The following is from The Confessions, Vol. 4, pp. 379 - 384.[109]]      --      I feel rather acutely how unsatisfactory these remarks must sound to you, but it is the best that I can do for you. You must regard it either as an excuse, or a Confession of incompetence, that I have always had this instinctive distaste for the subject.      --      Shameful Confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form of Restriction." (That, you remember, is "The word of Sin ...".) Of all the utter rubbish! (Anyhow, he was a "centre of pestilence" for discussing the Book at all.) About 90 % of Thelema, at a guess, is nothing but self-discipline. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue.      --      It is peculiarly noticeable that when a class is a ruling minority, it acquires a detestation as well as a contempt for the surrounding "mob." In the Northern States of U.S.A., where the whites are overwhelming in number, the "nigger" can be more or less a "regular fellow;" in the South, where fear is a factor, Lynch Law prevails. (Should it? The reason for "NO" is that it is a Confession of weakness.) But in the North, there is a very strong feeling about certain other classes: the Irish, the Italians, the Jews. Why? Fear again; the Irish in politics, the Italians in crime, the Jews in finance. But none of these phobias prevent friendship between individuals of hostile classes.      --      You say permit me to condense your more than somewhat tautological, pleonastic, prolix, diffuse and incoherent elucubrations! that the whole idea of the Great Order is based on faith in Progress. The doctrine of successive aeons is nothing else. The system of training is nothing else. Nothing, in fact, is anything else. Maugr this and in despite thereof (you continue, with a knavish gleam in your hither eye) I am everlastingly throwing down the whole jerry-built castle by my cynical reflections. (Some one Anthony Hope in a lucid moment, I think says that cynicism is always a Confession of failure "sour grapes.") Maybe, some of the time. But the explanation is very simple, and you ought to have been able to think it out for yourself. It is a question of the "Universe of Discourse," of Perspective. An engineer may swear himself ultra-marine in the map all the time at the daily mistakes and mishaps that go on all the time under his nose, yet at dinner tell his friends complacently that the bridge is going up better than he ever expected.      --      All these operations are equally valid and equally invalid, and the result of this is that the whole subject of Yoga leads to constantly increasing confusion. The fineness of the analytical instrument seems to defeat its own purpose and it is perhaps because of that Confession that I have always felt in my deepest consciousness that the method of Magick is on the whole less dangerous than that of Yoga. This is particularly the case when discussing these matters with a Western mind.      --     Armadale, Wilkie Collins 223     Spirit of Solitude, "Confessions", Crowley 231     La Terre, Emile Zola 247

Maps_of_Meaning_text, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal   Confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or   immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant had   --   mere idea of the stranger is sufficient to disrupt the stability of everyday presumption. Tolstoy, in his   Confessions, recalls the impact of modern Western European ideas on the too-long static medieval culture   of Russia:   --   a profound temptation, in the midst of that chaos.   Tolstoy begins the relevant section of his Confession with an allegory, derived from a tale of the East.   A traveller, chased by a wild beast, jumps down an old well. He grabs the branch of a vine that happens to   --   do a proper job of it. You fit the definition of a religious man as someone who gives careful   consideration to the demonic and irrational in humanity, so I think you will find my Confession   interesting.   --   in error, in my action, in my representation; accepts, as a consequence of unbending pride, eternal misery    refuses metanoia, Confession and reconciliation; remains forever the spirit that refuses and rejects:   O, then at last relent; is there no place   --   enterprise: the perfection of man by a new method of knowledge. In their perspective, such a method   had to integrate into a nonConfessional Christianity the Hermetic tradition and the natural sciences of   medicine, astronomy, and mechanics. In fact, this synthesis constituted a new Christian creation,   --   The Holy Bible, King James version (reference ed.). Iowa: World Bible Publishers, Inc.   Tolstoy, L. (1887-1983). Confessions (D. Patterson, Trans.). New York: W.W. Norton and Company.   Tomarken, A.J., Davidson, R.J., & Henriques, J.B. (1990). Resting frontal brain asymmetry predicts

MoM_References, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      Tolstoy, L. (1887-1983). Confessions (D. Patterson, Trans.). New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   his party say is obeyed.   PURANI: The Confessions of the generals and others were so dramatic.   SRI AUROBINDO: They made them to save their relatives probably.

The_Act_of_Creation_text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology   Impersonation is used both in comedy and tragedy; but in between them   the medicine man in his mask, the cassocked priest in the Confessional,   the psychiatrist in the role of the father, each impersonate a person or   --   implied in the ancient cathartic techniques from the Dionysian and   Orphic mystery-cults to the rites of baptism and the Confessional. The   psycho-analyst induces his patients to relive their conflicts in an illu-   --   conclusions have been realized.' 2 Darwin, Huxley, and Planck, among   many others, made similar Confessions; Einstein lost 'two years of hard   work' owing to a false inspiration. 'The imagination, wrote Beveridge,   --   mathematicians and scientists, from Kepler to Einstein, made similar   Confessions. 'Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the   world for ugly mathematics*, wrote G. H. Hardy in his classic, A   --   over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be/ 33   This moving Confession of a great scientist seems to be based on the   assumption that creativity is a kind of convertible energy which can

The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   Strangely, I did not like this being, I even felt a deep revulsion. I had expected complete nonexistence and with that had shot myself in the heart. And here I am in the hands of a being - not a human one, of course - but who is, who exists:   "Ah, so there is life beyond the grave!" I thought with the strange lightmindedness of dreams, but the essence of my heart remained with me in all its depth: "And if I must be again," I thought, "and live again according to someone's ineluctable will, I don't want to be defeated and humiliated!" "You know I'm afraid of you, and you despise me for it," I said suddenly to my companion, unable to hold back the humiliating question, which contained a Confession, and feeling my humiliation like the prick of a needle in my heart. He did not answer my question, but I suddenly felt that I was not despised or laughed at, and not even pitied, and that our journey had an unknown and mysterious purpose which concerned me alone.   Fear was growing in my heart. Something was being communicated to me, mutely but tormentingly, from my silent companion, and was as if penetrating me. We were rushing through dark and unknown spaces. I had long ceased to see constellations familiar to the eye. I knew that in the heavenly spaces there were stars whose light reached the earth only after thousands or millions of years. Maybe we were already flying through those spaces. I awaited something in a terrible anguish that wrung my heart. And suddenly the call of some highly familiar feeling shook me:

The_Golden_Bough, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   standing before the fire, she mentions aloud all the men she has   scored on her string, name after name. Having ended her Confession,   she throws the string into the fire, and when the god has consumed   --   hitherto they had believed to be completely within their control. It   was a Confession of human ignorance and weakness. Man saw that he   had taken for causes what were no causes, and that all his efforts   --   slight and partial acknowledgment of powers superior to man, tends   with the growth of knowledge to deepen into a Confession of man's   entire and absolute dependence on the divine; his old free bearing   --   the pepper ordeal. Pepper is dropped into the eyes of each of them,   and while this is being done the sufferer has to make a Confession   of all his sins, to answer all questions that may be put to him, and   --   principal districts of Egypt, he presided as judge at the trial of   the souls of the departed, who made their solemn Confession before   him, and, their heart having been weighed in the balance of justice,   --   sins such as any Badaga may commit, and the people repeat the last   word of each line after him. The Confession of sins is thrice   repeated. "By a conventional mode of expression, the sum total of   --   enough. As the last shout 'Let all be well' dies away, the performer   gives place to another, and again Confession is made, and all the   people shout 'It is a sin.' A third time it is done. Then, still in   --   scattered the embers and ashes about the floor with their hands. The   general Confession of sins which preceded the festival was probably   a preparation for the public expulsion of evil influences; it was a   --   hair, he begged they would not do it, and made a clean breast. In   subsequent cases, when torture failed to wring a Confession from a   prisoner, the Dutch authorities made a practice of cutting off his   --   torturer. Millaeus witnessed the torture of some persons at   Toulouse, from whom no Confession could be wrung until they were   stripped and completely shaven, when they readily acknowledged the

The_Gospel_According_to_Luke, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various      St. Luke places great emphasis on prayer. Luke portrays Jesus as one who prays: Jesus prays during his baptism (3:21), before choosing twelve apostles (6:12), before the Confession of Peter (9:18), before the Transfiguration (9:28), before the rendering of the Lord's Prayer (11:1), and before his arrest in the Garden (22:41). All except the prayer in the Garden are unique to Luke alone. The noun for prayer -    and the verb I pray - occur 43 times in his writings. He considers prayer to be among the more important elements of discipleship. Luke shows that prayer is the means by which God has guided his people throughout history.   --   10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. 12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place. 13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people. 14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. 15 And they did so, and made them all sit down. 16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.   Peter's Confession about Jesus

The_Gospel_According_to_Mark, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various      Peter's Confession of faith in Mark 8:27 that "You are the Messiah" marks a transition in the Gospel. The first half of the Gospel discovers the identity of Jesus through his actions; at this turning point, one learns about his true mission, his suffering and glory through his Death and Resurrection. There are three predictions of his passion, death on the Cross, and that he will rise again after three days: the first in 8:31, that "the Son of Man must suffer," identifying himself as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 52-53. The second prediction occurs in 9:31, and the third in 10:33-34, as Jesus and his disciples leave for Jerusalem. Jesus follows each of his three predictions with three statements on discipleship. The Lord defines discipleship as self-denial in Mark 8:34 - Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." Discipleship is described as service in Mark 9:35 and 10:43-44. 10:45 is one of the most important sayings in the Gospel, for Jesus gives the purpose of his Messianic mission - "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many."

The_Pilgrims_Progress, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   {202} To others, it is thus discovered:   1. By an experimental Confession of his faith in Christ. [Rom. 10:10, Phil. 1:27, Matt. 5:19]   2. By a life answerable to that Confession; to wit, a life of holiness, heart-holiness, family-holiness, (if he hath a family), and by conversation-holiness in the world which, in the general, teacheth him, inwardly, to abhor his sin, and himself for that, in secret; to suppress it in his family and to promote holiness in the world; not by talk only, as a hypocrite or talkative person may do, but by a practical subjection, in faith and love, to the power of the Word. [John 14:15, Ps. 50:23, Job 42:5-6, Eze. 20:43] And now, Sir, as to this brief description of the work of grace, and also the discovery of it, if you have aught to object, object; if not, then give me leave to propound to you a second question.   {203} TALK. Nay, my part is not now to object, but to hear; let me, therefore, have your second question.   --   {236} 3. As to what Mr. Pickthank hath said, I say (avoiding terms, as that I am said to rail, and the like) that the prince of this town, with all the rabblement, his attendants, by this gentleman named, are more fit for a being in hell, than in this town and country: and so, the Lord have mercy upon me!   {237} Then the Judge called to the jury (who all this while stood by, to hear and observe): Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar hath been made in this town. You have also heard what these worthy gentlemen have witnessed against him. Also you have heard his reply and Confession. It lieth now in your breasts to hang him or save his life; but yet I think meet to instruct you into our law.   {238} There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that lest those of a contrary religion should multiply and grow too strong for him, their males should be thrown into the river. [Exo. 1:22] There was also an Act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his servants, that whosoever would not fall down and worship his golden image, should be thrown into a fiery furnace. [Dan. 3:6] There was also an Act made in the days of Darius, that whoso, for some time, called upon any god but him, should be cast into the lions' den. [Dan. 6] Now the substance of these laws this rebel has broken, not only in thought, (which is not to be borne), but also in word and deed; which must therefore needs be intolerable.   --   IGNOR. I believe that Christ died for sinners, and that I shall be justified before God from the curse, through his gracious acceptance of my obedience to his law. Or thus, Christ makes my duties, that are religious, acceptable to his Father, by virtue of his merits; and so shall I be justified.   {363} CHR. Let me give an answer to this Confession of thy faith:--   1. Thou believest with a fantastical faith; for this faith is nowhere described in the Word.

The_Way_of_Perfection, #unset, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   a case, conversation with him, however edifying, should be avoided, and the sister should make   her Confession briefly and say nothing more. It would be best for her, indeed, to tell the superior   that she does not get on with him and go elsewhere; this is the safest way, providing it can be done   --   no idea where to turn, the safest thing will be for the sister to try to speak with some learned person;   if necessary, permission to do this can be given her, and she can make her Confession to him and   act in the matter as he directs her. For he cannot fail to give her some good advice about it, without   --   you, you should regard him with grave suspicion; in such a case conversation with him, even about   prayer and about God, should be avoided-the sister should make her Confession briefly and say   nothing more. It would be best for her to tell the Mother (Superior) that she does not get on with   --   basis for prayer; but without this strong foundation the whole building will go awry. In making   their Confessions, then, the nuns must be free to discuss spiritual matters with such persons as I   have described. I will even go farther and say that they should sometimes do as I have said even if   --   superiors themselves. As I say, excellent reasons have been found why, everything considered, this   is the best course, and why, if any priest hears Confessions frequently, it should be the chaplain;   but, if the nuns think it necessary, they can make their Confessions to such persons as have been   described, provided the superior is informed of it, and the prioress is such that the Bishop can trust   --   another abode, since you are driving Him from His own house. Cry aloud to His Majesty and try   to put things right; and if frequent Confessions and communions do not mend them, you may well   fear that there is some Judas among you.