#confess

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#affair #confession #lie #love #trust

I don’t know. I don’t know, Jess,” he said as a sob shuddered through him. “Because I am a damned fool. Fuck! I have everything I want right in front of me, I love you so damned much I can’t think straight, and then it’s like…I don’t know, like I’m so afraid of losing you, that I keep pushing you away so maybe I’ll stop caring as much and then it won’t hurt as bad if I do lose you. It’s so fucking twisted even I don’t understand it. ↗

— M.L. Rhodes

#love #passion #love

The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride ↗

— Jhoomur Bose

#confessionally-yours #indian-writing #marriage #marriage

Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#confession #sin #men

You have made us to be free, But we crave the cheap comforts of our chains. You have made us to serve others, But we have eyes only for ourselves. You have made us to love, But we are inflamed with lust. You provide, that we may be generous, But we greedily hoard as if your well will run dry. You forgive time and again, But we hold fast to the sins of others. You offer light for our path, But we insist on making our own way. You are the God who saves. Lord, save us from ourselves. In your great mercy, restore and heal us, and grant us your peace. ↗

— Ecclesia Catholica

#liturgy #forgiveness

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#believe #confess #does #good #himself

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#confessed #dare #fear #girl #independent

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#confession #psychoanalysis #without

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#been #called #confessed #grand #grand jury

I love you. You’re mine. I’ll kill any bastard who tries to take you from me. ↗

— Samantha Young

#love #possessiveness #love