Confession Quotes

He’s half absolv’d who has confessed.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Confess yourself to heaven: Repent what’s past; avoid what is to come. (Hamlet)

When the church teaches that “confession is good for the soul,” it teaches false doctrine; it is only good for the church.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

The more sins you confess, the more books you sell.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Confession is the first step to repentance.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.