To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge.

I’d advise you, then, to quickly get rid of your burden; for until then you’ll never be settled in your mind or enjoy the benefits of the blessings that God has given you.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

[...] do not damage yourselves
By attending only at the hungry altar
Of regret and anger and guilt.

If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?

In there, religion nodded knowingly, 'Confess every sin, all of them, lay your heart before God, you will feel lighter.' I tried but I also kept sinning, so the light never came-

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

I wouldn't presume to weigh suffering against sins.

You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much.

Next time you’re tempted to surround yourself with worshipers, go to church. In the rest of your life, seek constructive criticism.

If some priest or other comes to take my confession and give me sacrament, tell him to clear out, quick, and leave me his curse instead! I´ve done heaps and heaps of things in my life, but I still did not do enough. Men like me ought to live a thousand years.