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“Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.”
“Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.”
“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the treesthen, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctanceour wordswere mea...”
“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.”
“I feel like, I was going somehow with my life, holding myself together and then these blasts happened, and then suddenly I was paralyzed. I was not able to move, or to even hold myself intact. As i...”
“She wanted to confess and be forgiven. She wanted her soul to be clean, but it was impossible. To be forgiven, she would have to repent. Repent, as in resolve not to sin again. Fred prayed every da...”
“When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overco...”
“As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.”
“Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful...”
“Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.”
“Hey, Ethan.""Yeah?""Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?""The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice."He grinned and shot th...”
“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
“A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tau...”
“Im beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.”
“Keep your heart pure.”
“i'm sorryif iwasn't the daughteryou hadin mind-i only ever wanted to make you proud-”
“Id think about you and how I didnt want us to end. Its complicatedMax still held her, his thumbs stroking the spot on her wrists where her pulse was thundering away. Uncomplicate it then. Did you m...”
“I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness. Now that is what you call a true confe...”
“I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up”
“Even though I didnt originally buy it for you, because like an idiot I avoided your feelings like the plague, I hadnt noticed until now that it wasnt the lucky price that had drawn me to it, but th...”
