Pastoral Resources

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!

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

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

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

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.

Faith never makes a confession.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A confession has to be part of your new life.