The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.
Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
Confess and be hanged.
Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.
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