<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Confession - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651]]></link><description><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confessed faults are half-mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9655]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9645]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would bring him on to some confession   Of his true state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on the weeds   To make them ranker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception   That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650</guid></item></channel></rss>