"At the time of your examination beware of the devil that ties your tongue."
- St. Josemaria Escriva
"Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects."
--James, 16
"If the window is dirty, the light cannot come in. If your morals are bad, faith and grace can't fall upon you."
--Archbishop Fulton Sheen
"Your soul stinks. You put all that stuff under your arm. Forget it. The angels can smell you a mile away."
--Mother Angelica (from EWTN)
"Jesus gave the authority to priests to confess sins. You don't like it? Take it up with Him. Nobody just made this stuff up because it's fun. Priests have to confess to other priests too, you know."
--Christopher Majella Paul
"For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!"
-- Tarek Saab, Gut Check
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
--Oscar Wilde
"Those who have lost their purity are like a piece of cloth stained with oil; you may wash it and dry it, and the stain always appears again; so it requires a miracle to cleanse the impure soul."
--Saint Jean-marie Baptiste de Vianney, the Cure of Ars
"Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly. Do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God. Hope and have confidence in confession."
--St. Isidore of Seville
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
--St. Augustine
"Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages."
--St. Francis de Sales
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