Confession
Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
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Confession Quotations
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova
Confession Translations
confession in French is confesse, confession
confession in Italian is confessione
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