106 quotes found
“Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.”
“The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace.”
“Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He...”
“How much blunter can I be, Sehun? After tonight, it should be pretty obvious.What should be pretty obvious?Dont play coy.KaiI want you, Sehun. How many times should I tell you that? he cupped Sehun...”
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”
“There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.”
“Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.”
“He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who confessed: in the course of many enquiries, Hawksmoor had come across those who accused themselves ...”
“The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close...”
“Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...”
“Youre beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me”
“Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.”
“You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second Im awake and dream at night of my hands on your ...”
“I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.”
“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about page three.'They were comfortable in each other's company, and this c...”
“God, you smell nice, he whispered. I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, little Ann.”
“For a long time, Nico said, I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know. Percy looked at Nico. Then at Annabeth, as if to check that hed heard correctly. Then back at Nico. You Yeah, Nico said...”
“Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscien...”
“She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger wit...”
“Open confession is good for the soul.”
