#confession

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What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even to a torturer when there is no one else, it doesn't matter so long as we speak out what moves within us. Even the most secretive of us do it, if no more than writing in a private diary. And I have often thought as I read stories and novels and poems, especially poems, that they are no more than authors' confessions transformed by their art into something that confesses for us all. Indeed, looking back on my life-long passion for reading, the one activity that has kept me going and given me the most and only lasting pleasure, I think this is the reason that explains why it means so much to me. The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself.


Aidan Chambers


#art

I love you.” I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this. He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind lagged behind what my body was feeling. “Say it,” he whispered against my lips. “I know this is hard for you. Tell me.” “I love you.” Hearing my own words, I gasped at the rush of emotion. He put his hands on either side of my jaw and took my mouth with his.


Jennifer Echols


#erin #hunter #love #romance #love

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.


Paul David Tripp


#church #confession #conversion #forgiveness #paul-david-tripp

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.


Maria Monk


#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough

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!


Ernestine Rose


#ballot #ballot box #box #confession #contact

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.


Richard Rosen


#confession #handshake #new

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.


Fulton J. Sheen


#confessions #death #hearing #like #nuns

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


Georg Simmel


#between #break #confession #gossip #men

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.


Jerry A. Coyne


#conclusion-before-evidence #confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism

Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then!


Faraaz Kazi


#love #love