Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead

General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

Some people are motivated by money – I’m not one of them.

One of the biggest fears that I actually had was after my retirement to be completely forgotten.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don’t give a damn.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

I can promise you books and conversations and all my heart.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Our confession of His faithfulness is Heaven’s chosen agency for revealing Christ to the world.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you, that would be the real betrayal.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Life is awesome, I confess.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn’t sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoe

Comedy always works best when it’s mean-spirited

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your year

The country doesn’t deserve anything less than success from us. Let us aim for success

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion, and compassion

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change

I allow myself to fail, I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

My one regret is that I didn’t win a trophy with Tottenham, despite us being a strong team who played good, attractive football.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

The ultimate form of disrespect is to dismiss someone’s worth and value.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house ,and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both

For me, being Mom in Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

You may not always have a comfortable life, and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.

I’m the type of girl who can be happy with a pizza and Netflix.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L’Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I’d be associated with them.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

We Don’t Build Services to Make Money, We Make Money To Build Services.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you’re building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

I can’t go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It’s tough, but I knew that was going to be the case.

Baby, I’m in love. I admit it. I know that you think I want to hit it.