People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mohandas Gandhi

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Germaine Greer

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

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.
Billy Sunday

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger

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

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Francois Truffaut

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
DeWitt Clinton

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
Thomas Monaghan

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Ryan Stiles