#confession

Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin. We cannot bear to reveal our failures and shortcomings to others. We imagine that we are the only ones who have not stepped onto the high road to heaven. Therefore, we hide ourselves from one another and live in veiled lies and hypocrisy. But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. We know we are not alone in our sin. The fear and pride that cling to us like barnacles cling to others also. We are sinners together. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#sin #sinners #the-church #imagination

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you. ↗

— Ally Carter

#happiness #love #love

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it. 'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#love #sky #zed #love

I think I fell in love with you that amazing night on the kitchen floor. Or maybe it was the evening you stepped up and set my arm." Testing things, he reached for her hand, and, to his joy, she glared, but she let him take it. "Or maybe the night I knew I loved you was when I kissed you under the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. It's hard to say because I look at you now and it seems to me there's never been a time when I didn't love you. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#kiss #longing #love #romance #time

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#confession #sin #blame

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#honesty #integrity #morality #truth #morals

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

— Francois Truffaut

#autobiographical #confession #diary #even #film

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

— George Weinberg

#act #box #confession #engage #every

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

— Horatio Alger

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

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

— Saint Augustine

#confession #evil #first #good #good works