Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

It was thought that the confession of the accused was indispensable to his condemnation, an idea not only unreasonable, but contrary to the most simple good sense in matters of jurisprudence; for if the denial of the accused is not accepted as proof of his innocence, the confession which is torn from him by torture ought to serve still less as proof of his guilt.

All art is a kind of confession.

The point is this: guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession, we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ’s purifying love (cf. Jn 3:20-21). In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

Confession is like really, really healthy vomit. It may smell and get all over the front of your shirt, but you feel better — you feel cleansed — when you're done.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

...'I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.

The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.