If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might - the majesty of Loveliness.
Hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies.
I must confess, mine eye and heart Dote less on Nature than on Art
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.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
I've got to confess, I've always had this distrust for the whole industry. Maybe it's horror stories about people with garages full of Amway products.
Confessions on a Dance Floor is all about having a good time straight through and non-stop ... I want people to jump out of their seats.
Confess and be hanged.
It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Waterboarding -- that's what America does to its prisoners now. Dunking them in water until they confess. Of course, you have to remember -- we uncovered a lot of witches that way. So, credit where credit is due.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Therefore I do require it, which I makes confession, to be brought reg'lar and draw'd mild.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
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.
For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.
If someone were to come to a Catholic priest and to confess to a murder in a confessional situation, which is between that person and God -- using myself in this case as a medium -- there is nothing absolutely that I could say, ever,
She is the principal figure to date to be sentenced by the tribunal, and when you add the confession of guilt it makes for a significant milestone in the work of the tribunal.
An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation
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
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
I confess, I do not believe in time.
You can't just convict someone of molesting a child just because they said they did it. You have to be able to prove the molestation charges apart from the confession. You need other evidence.
They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
Forced confessions were extracted from some of the hostages in which they were made to say on camera that they had been forced by the international community to audit these banks,
I think the worst of the confession season is over.
He who denies all, confesses all.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
My whole act is confession.
The act of love ... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
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.
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.
I confess, I confess treason.
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.
It shouldn't take this to be able to have the conversation we're having. What you have in front of you is a confession on the part of this district that we can't provide an education at that school for the kids that are there today.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love
With such integrity, she did confess
Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,
But that her flight prevented it, she had
Ta'en off by poison.
You are committed to what you confess.
It's not for them to decide whether it is relevant or not. It's for Judge Joseph Condon to decide. I believe there is a history of using a premise of a polygraph and supposedly ending up with a confession.
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
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Ximinez Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- four counts. Do you confess; Wilde I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez Ha Then we'll make you understand Biggles Fetch... THE CUSHIONSBiggles Here they are, lord. Ximinez Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- two last chances. And you shall be free -- three last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
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