106 quotes found
“Lucien?Yes, Alice?Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him unpredictable, dangerous as he was. I think its real.”
“And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. You b...”
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally g...”
“..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.”
“Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.”
“I know Im not an easy She-dragon to. . not fear. Im not afraid of you, Ghleanna. Ive never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. . I think youre amazing. I always have. Since the first time you i...”
“The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.”
“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.”
“On the way home from church, I felt like I was walking on clouds, as pure as an angel. I wished a car would run me down at that very instant, so I could die and go straight to heaven before I had a...”
“Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.”
“What's wrong with the world?It's easy to probe the ills of the nation, the Church, and the planet and come up with a grave diagnosis... But it takes all the strength we can muster to stand at Mass ...”
“Love cant cover over the sins we cover upIf you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.”
“One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awaren...”
“The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the s...”
“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 h...”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
“I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towards her.”
“If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.”
“So what do you have to confess now?"I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this.""What is 'this'?""Being open. Being h...”
“Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ has given him. Our brother stands before us the s...”
