Top 45 Confession Quotes

It takes a real man to make a true confession – a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don’t torture me. I didn’t do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

I’m going to start by making a confession. My name’s Sajid Javid. And I used to be a banker. No point denying it.

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.

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.

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 went on a Buddha jag. I read ‘Confession of a Buddhist Atheist’ by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong’s biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

My Valentine’s playlist… you’re gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You’re gonna have to play some 112. You’re gonna have to play some Confession – Usher’s – back in the day. You know, a little bit of Prince Royce there, too.

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.

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?

You can’t legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.

First, a confession: I liked ‘The Da Vinci Code.’ This news is even more of a surprise to me than it might be to those who, years ago, heard me quip that I quit reading it because ‘the moment the albino assassin came through the door, I left.’

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Faith never makes a confession.

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.

Let me start with a confession: I don’t enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I’m a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife’s cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.

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.

All art is a confession.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I have a confession to make – I am very fond of junk food.

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.

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial – and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Here’s a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

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

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Acting is a form of confession.

It’s a funny thing about rap, that when you say ‘I’ into the microphone, it’s like a public confession. It’s very strange.

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!

Everyone sees something different in ‘Endgame’: a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth – not about the play, but about the person watching it.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living – or a sort of living – writing negative book reviews.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us.

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

I have a confession to make: my name is Melissa Leong and I am a former food blogger.

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

I have a confession. I don’t enjoy animation. I have no idea why because I absolutely adore doing voiceovers. I think part of me feels that animation has put an actor out of work.

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

I have a confession to make – I truly love country music.

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 love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.