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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
— Martin Luther
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
— Mary Baker Eddy
This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
— Joel Osteen
Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers. Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.
— Ravi Zacharias
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
— Max Lucado
Don't use your words to describe your situation; use your words to change your situation!" — Joel Osteen
— Terri Savelle Foy
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and You took away the guilt of my sin. Psalm 32:5
— Beth Moore
The sins we confess are not just drinking too much beer but also getting drunk on the cocktails of culture. We are not just laying our lives at the altar with nothing to pick up but we are also picking up an irresistible revolution that the world is waiting for.
— Shane Claiborne
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
— John 9:22
Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?
— Lancelot Andrewes
God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.
— David Jeremiah
Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.
— John Perkins