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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.

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

Faith never makes a confession.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.