Vol. 2: through word confession power.

Beneath the confession-chair still standing in the Rochus chapel, in which I'm also in the habit of keeping my writings, I dug a hole and lined it on the inside with shells from the Rhine and beautiful little pebbles that I found on the mountain.

Be not obdurate in your wickednesse; Confession drawes repentance after it.

Shepherd, thine own confession hath condemned thee.

"I see," said a Spaniard, "that we can scarcely get anything from Christ's ministers but for money; at baptism money, at bishoping money, at marriage money, for confession money,no, not extreme unction without money!

But, surely, this is just what I am urging against you Protestantsjust what the Catholic use of confession obviates.' 'Attempts to do so, you mean!' answered Lancelot.

Such Innocence this plain Confession shows, name me the man, and I'll resign thee back to him.

Alan asked after a pause during which he let the full irony of the man's confession sink into his heart and turn there like a knife in a wound.

" Then said the maiden: "Thou hast spoken true, But full confession endeth sorrow's pain, And sadness brings its fuller gift of wisdom.

It was yet dusky dawn when she might have been seen kneeling, with her sharp, clear-cut profile, at the grate of a confession-box in a church in Sorrento.

The contaminating effect of deeds lies less in the commission than in the consequent adjustment of our desiresthe enlistment of our self-interest on the side of falsity; as, on the other hand, the purifying effect of public confession springs from the fact that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.