Quotes about Confession
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
- AW Pink
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."
- Watchman Nee
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
- Anne Graham Lotz
For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.
- Charles Spurgeon
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
The rabbi comes in to read the Psalms with you and hear you say the Vidui, that terrible confession in which you admit your responsibility not only for the sins you have committed, whether by word, deed, or thought, but also for those you may have caused others to commit.
- Elie Wiesel
There is no hope for any of us until we confess our helplessness . Then we are in a position to receive grace
- Elisabeth Elliot
Peter's confession of faith, like our own, could never have come about by his own strength. Faith is a gift that we are given. This exchange between Peter and Jesus is a concrete example of the Spirit of God taking the word of God and bringing it to someone's mind and heart in a way that causes him or her to declare the messiahship of Jesus.
- Alistair Begg
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
- Erica Jong
I have loads of secrets to tell all the time.
- Lady Colin Campbell
A Creed,3 or Rule of Faith,4 or Symbol,5 is a confession of faith for public use, or a form of words setting forth with authority certain articles of belief, which are regarded by the framers as necessary for salvation, or at least for the well-being of the Christian Church.
- Philip Schaff
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
- Publilius Syrus