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Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.

I own the soft impeachment.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.

Confessed faults are half-mended.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

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

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

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

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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

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

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Open confession is good for the soul.

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.

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