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  • By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.

    Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.3, SUNY Press
  • Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

  • The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin
  • When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

    "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate". Book by Alexander McCall Smith, 2005.
  • I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

    Crush   Flower   Hands  
    Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • You're nothing short of my everything.

  • It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

    Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”
  • Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.

    Adolf Hitler “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”
  • My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

    Samuel Lover, James Jeffrey Roche (1903). “The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche”
  • Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.

  • Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

    Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

    Michel de Montaigne (2014). “Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection”, New York Review of Books
  • The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

    Country   Lying   Hero  
    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
  • True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

    Christian   Abiding   Doe  
  • Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

    St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.162, TAN Books
  • every smart / Is eased in telling.

  • Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

    Men   Giving   Tomorrow  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1518, GENERAL PRESS
  • Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

    Regret   Heart   Men  
    Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.620, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
  • I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

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

  • Everyone say to himself: 'When was the last time I went to confession?' And if it has been a long time, don't lose another day! Go, the priest will be good. And Jesus, (will be) there, and Jesus is better than the priests - Jesus receives you. He will receive you with so much love! Be courageous, and go to confession.

    Jesus   Love Is   Long  
  • Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

  • I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

    Believe   Space   May  
    "John Von Neumann: Selected Letters".
  • Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  • Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.374, Stanford University Press
  • I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

    House   Towers   Stones  
    Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc
  • How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

    Music   Writing   Soul  
  • Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

    Faith   Men   Comedy  
    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

    Lying   Confession   Myth  
    Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”
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