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

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

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

Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

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

Faith never makes a confession.

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

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

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.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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

Acting is a form of confession.

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.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.

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?

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

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.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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

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

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!

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

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

My whole act is confession.

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

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

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.

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All art is a confession.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

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

In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

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.

Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.

Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.