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Quotations on Confession 14 Quotes Found 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. The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession. I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again! I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. |
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