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.
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.
Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered...
Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the law, then it makes sense to question what kind of people they are. He posits that corporations behave with al...
Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among other things - working productively, remembering to leave the house, and eating well. I thought about food all the time. I had a subscrip...
In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: 'A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.' I haven’t attended confession in well over a decade, and that’...
We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those faces, I see that the seemingly repugnant behavior wasn’t so a...
We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a ...
Sometimes the people who’ve owned the books in this shop leave little clues between the pages, and not just love notes or pressed flowers. You might come upon an unused Amtrak ticket tucked between the pages of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or ...
Marv: I'm on my feet for about ten minutes before the cops kick them out from under me. They don't ask me any questions. They just keep knocking the crap out of me and waving a confession in my face. And I keep spitting blood all over it and laughing...
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for 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.
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
