All art is a confession.

- Gaston Lachaise

A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children.

- Kevin DeYoung

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

- Karl Marx

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

- James Nesbitt

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

- J. M. Coetzee

Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

- John Wycliffe

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

- Jack Kerouac

Faith never makes a confession.

- Henry David Thoreau

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

- Helen Rowland

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

- Hamish Bowles

In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

- Germaine Greer

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

- DeWitt Clinton

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

- Donald Wuerl

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

- Denis O'Hare

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

- Dorothy Dix

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

- Daniel Webster

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

- Bruce Feiler

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

- Alison Bechdel