Quotes about Confess

Confess and be hanged. Votes: 3

Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide. Votes: 3

Confess your sins. God will cleanse you of all the wrongs done. Votes: 3

God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him. Votes: 3

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name. Votes: 3

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven confess them to man and you will be laughed at Votes: 3

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. Votes: 3

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test. Votes: 3

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air. Votes: 3

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Votes: 3

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16) Votes: 3

Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit. Votes: 3

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification. Votes: 3

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. Votes: 2

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Votes: 2

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Votes: 2

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. Votes: 2

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Votes: 2

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Votes: 2

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. Votes: 2

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders. Votes: 2

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? Votes: 2

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. Votes: 2

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Votes: 2

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Votes: 2

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Votes: 2

I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked. Votes: 2

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less. Votes: 2

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. Votes: 2

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Votes: 2

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women. Votes: 2

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions. Votes: 2

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. Votes: 2

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. Votes: 2

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. Votes: 2

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. Votes: 2

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. Votes: 2

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness. Votes: 2

People never confess to failure. They should. Votes: 0

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. Votes: 0

You are committed to what you confess. Votes: 0

I confess to being a frustrated musician. Votes: 0

Let us confess it: evil strides the world. Votes: 0

I confess I've never felt like a passenger. Votes: 0

I confess, I do not believe in time. Votes: 0

I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight. Votes: 0

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it. Votes: 0

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself. Votes: 0

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it. Votes: 0

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely. Votes: 0

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. Votes: 0

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Votes: 0

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. Votes: 0

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth Votes: 0

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. Votes: 0

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. Votes: 0

We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins. Votes: 0

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical. Votes: 0

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. Votes: 0

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources. Votes: 0

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook. Votes: 0

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. Votes: 0

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing ... Votes: 0

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation. Votes: 0

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins. Votes: 0

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right. Votes: 0

You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder. Votes: 0

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins Votes: 0

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again. Votes: 0

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. Votes: 0

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. Votes: 0

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. Votes: 0

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. Votes: 0

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ Votes: 0

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world Votes: 0

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either. Votes: 0

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. Votes: 0

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. Votes: 0

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. Votes: 0

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. Votes: 0

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. Votes: 0

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Votes: 0

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends. Votes: 0

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money. Votes: 0

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess. Votes: 0

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess. Votes: 0

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Votes: 0

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. Votes: 0

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. Votes: 0

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed. Votes: 0

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Votes: 0

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty. Votes: 0

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins. Votes: 0

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one. Votes: 0

I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life. . . Votes: 0

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me. Votes: 0

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently. Votes: 0

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive. Votes: 0

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. Votes: 0

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. Votes: 0

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. Votes: 0

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them. Votes: 0

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful. Votes: 0

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Votes: 0

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. Votes: 0

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any. Votes: 0

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing. Votes: 0

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. Votes: 0

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. Votes: 0

Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere. Votes: 0

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Votes: 0

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure. Votes: 0

Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock. Votes: 0

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. Votes: 0

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. Votes: 0

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard. Votes: 0

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. Votes: 0

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish. Votes: 0

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. Votes: 0

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets? Votes: 0

You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know. Votes: 0

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity. Votes: 0

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. Votes: 0

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious. Votes: 0

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. Votes: 0

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. Votes: 0

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. Votes: 0

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you. Votes: 0

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. Votes: 0

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy. Votes: 0

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. Votes: 0

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian. Votes: 0

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though. Votes: 0

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. Votes: 0

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less. Votes: 0

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess. Votes: 0

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. Votes: 0

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. Votes: 0

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. Votes: 0

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser Votes: 0

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness... Votes: 0

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again. Votes: 0

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. Votes: 0

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value. Votes: 0

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. Votes: 0

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one. Votes: 0

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me. Votes: 0

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo Votes: 0

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him. Votes: 0

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth. Votes: 0

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. Votes: 0

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it. Votes: 0

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. Votes: 0

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them Votes: 0

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives. Votes: 0

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?" Votes: 0

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. Votes: 0

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality Votes: 0

If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game! Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. Votes: 0

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. Votes: 0

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money Votes: 0

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. Votes: 0

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree Votes: 0

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse. Votes: 0

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it. Votes: 0

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. Votes: 0

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... Votes: 0

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool. Votes: 0

I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess. Votes: 0

He'd always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. Votes: 0

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. Votes: 0

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created. Votes: 0

I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon. Votes: 0

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined Votes: 0

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. Votes: 0

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end. Votes: 0

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. Votes: 0

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Votes: 0

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. Votes: 0

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment. Votes: 0

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. Votes: 0

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. Votes: 0

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live. Votes: 0

Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. Votes: 0

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness... Votes: 0

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor! Votes: 0

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. Votes: 0

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. Votes: 0

In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released! Votes: 0

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. Votes: 0

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all. Votes: 0

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes. Votes: 0

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself. Votes: 0

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess. Votes: 0

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that. Votes: 0

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. Votes: 0

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing. Votes: 0

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. Votes: 0

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different. Votes: 0

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears. Votes: 0

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. Votes: 0

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. Votes: 0

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake. Votes: 0

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different. Votes: 0

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. Votes: 0

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make. Votes: 0

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason. Votes: 0

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none. Votes: 0

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity Votes: 0

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Votes: 0

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.... Votes: 0

Oh yes. You've caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies. Votes: 0

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. Votes: 0

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out. Votes: 0

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? Votes: 0

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle. Votes: 0

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. Votes: 0

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. Votes: 0

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics. Votes: 0

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. Votes: 0

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. Votes: 0

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. Votes: 0

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. Votes: 0

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. Votes: 0

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone. Votes: 0

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. Votes: 0

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. Votes: 0

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him. Votes: 0

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. Votes: 0

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all. Votes: 0

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. Votes: 0

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. Votes: 0

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force. Votes: 0

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. Votes: 0

You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know. Votes: 0

For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven. Votes: 0

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do. Votes: 0

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing. Votes: 0

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am. Votes: 0

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. Votes: 0

you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up Votes: 0

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. Votes: 0

I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain. Votes: 0

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams. Votes: 0

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves. Votes: 0

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. Votes: 0

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand Votes: 0

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams. Votes: 0

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment Votes: 0

You are my life, my very essence,You are the air that I breathe,You are the key to my repentanceWhich I confess is not a breeze!" Votes: 0

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves. Votes: 0

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him." Votes: 0

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. Votes: 0

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Votes: 0

Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame. Votes: 0

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. Votes: 0

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." Votes: 0

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. Votes: 0

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. Votes: 0

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess? Votes: 0

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it. Votes: 0

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is"--not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America ... Votes: 0

I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you. Votes: 0

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully. Votes: 0

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.) Votes: 0

I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night. Votes: 0

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. Votes: 0

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse. Votes: 0

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany. Votes: 0

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest. Votes: 0

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. Votes: 0

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany. Votes: 0

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air. Votes: 0

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized. Votes: 0

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved. Votes: 0

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately. Votes: 0

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads. Votes: 0

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth. Votes: 0

If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God. Votes: 0

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies Votes: 0

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable. Votes: 0

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general Votes: 0

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes. Votes: 0

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence. Votes: 0

I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up. Votes: 0

I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For me, he is just the...one. Votes: 0

When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it. Votes: 0

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require. Votes: 0

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up. Votes: 0

I must confess, I'm not the best cook. I make a mean salsa, as I like hot sauce and, you know, tacos, because I'm a California kid, and that's about it. Votes: 0

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion. Votes: 0

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing. Votes: 0

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs. Votes: 0

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. Votes: 0

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. Votes: 0

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail Votes: 0

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. Votes: 0

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go. Votes: 0

I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had. Votes: 0

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her. Votes: 0

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail. Votes: 0

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes. Votes: 0

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it Votes: 0

For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life. Votes: 0

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them. Votes: 0

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness. Votes: 0

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things. Votes: 0

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Votes: 0

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator. Votes: 0

When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ. Votes: 0

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind. Votes: 0

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight. Votes: 0

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. Votes: 0

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. Votes: 0

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together. Votes: 0

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe. Votes: 0

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair. Votes: 0

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!" Votes: 0

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may. Votes: 0

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him! Votes: 0

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages. Votes: 0

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. Votes: 0

Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple! Votes: 0

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more. Votes: 0

I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, I'm in the clear for at least ten years. Votes: 0

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge. Votes: 0

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process. Votes: 0

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself. Votes: 0

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. Votes: 0

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life. Votes: 0

God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh. Votes: 0