It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Confession Quotes
The more sins you confess, the more books you sell.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Confession is the first step to repentance.
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Open confession is good for the soul.
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
It’s like going to confession every time I hear you speak. You drag it around like a ball and chain. You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain. You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown. Got your mind in the gutter, bringin’ everybody down.
All error has contradiction in it, which is revealed by a relevant inquiry, when an artillery of counter assertions might not disclose it. Arguments may be evaded, but a fair and pertinent question creates no animosity, and must be answered, since silence is a confession of error or of ignorance.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
